Efficiently engineering pore-scale processes: The role of force dominance and topology during nonwetting phase trapping in porous media

Herring, Anna; Andersson, Linnea; Schlüter, Steffen; Sheppard, Adrian; Wildenschild, Dorthe

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Efficiently engineering pore-scale processes: The role of force dominance and topology during nonwetting phase trapping in porous media

Date

2015

Authors

Herring, Anna

Andersson, Linnea

Schlüter, Steffen

Sheppard, Adrian

Wildenschild, Dorthe

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

We investigate trapping of a nonwetting (NW) phase, air, within Bentheimer sandstone cores during drainage-imbibition flow experiments, as quantified on a three dimensional (3D) pore-scale basis via x-ray computed microtomography (X-ray CMT). The wetting