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卷 6, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep36221
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- Israeli Science Foundation [ISF-867/13]
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation [BSF-2012140]
- Israel Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development [821-0137-13]
- Israeli Science Foundation [ISF-867/13]
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation [BSF-2012140]
- Israel Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development [821-0137-13]
We present a systematic, quantitative assessment of the impact of pore size disorder and its interplay with flow rates and wettability on immiscible displacement of a viscous fluid. Pore-scale simulations and micromodel experiments show that reducing disorder increases the displacement efficiency and compactness, minimizing the fluid-fluid interfacial area, through (i) trapping at low rates and (ii) viscous fingering at high rates. Increasing the wetting angle suppresses both trapping and fingering, hence reducing the sensitivity of the displacement to the underlying disorder. A modified capillary number Ca* that includes the impact of disorder lambda on viscous forces (through pore connectivity) is direct related to lambda, in par with previous works. Our findings bear important consequences on sweep efficiency and fluid mixing and reactions, which are key in applications such as microfluidics to carbon geosequestration, energy recovery, and soil aeration and remediation.
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