Interface pinning of immiscible gravity-exchange flows in porous media

We study the gravity-exchange flow of two immiscible fluids in a porous medium and show that, in contrast with the miscible case, a portion of the initial interface remains pinned at all times. We elucidate, by means of micromodel experiments, the pore-level mechanism responsible for capillary pinni...

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Main Authors: Zhao, Benzhong, MacMinn, Christopher W., Szulczewski, Michael Lawrence, Neufeld, Jerome A., Huppert, Herbert E., Juanes, Ruben
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77935
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7370-2332
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2525-3779

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