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Upscaling unsaturated flow in fractured rock remains challenging because fractures and matrix often exhibit sharply contrasting hydraulic behaviors across saturation states. Here, we demonstrate that unsaturated flow undergoes a transition…

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The DFLU numerical flux was introduced in order to solve hyperbolic scalar conservation laws with a flux function discontinuous in space. We show how this flux can be used to solve certain class of systems of conservation laws such as…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Adi Adimurthi , G. D. Veerappa Gowda , Jérôme Jaffré

Flow in fractured porous media is modeled frequently by discrete fracture-matrix approaches where fractures are treated as dimensionally reduced manifolds. Generalizing earlier work we focus on two-phase flow in time-dependent fracture…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Samuel Burbulla , Christian Rohde

The simultaneous presence of liquid and gas in porous media increases flow heterogeneity compared to saturated flows. However, so far the impact of saturation on flow statistics and transport dynamics remained unclear. Here, we develop a…

This study presents a first-principles model to predict the two-phase pressure drop in gas-liquid intermittent flow through round capillaries, which serve as the simplest analogous of a porous medium. Building upon the classical capillary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-15 Paolo Botticini , Davide Picchi , Santanu Sinha , Alex Hansen

The central problem in the physics of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media is to find a proper description of the flow at scales large enough so that the medium may be regarded as a continuum: the scale-up problem. So far, the only…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Alex Hansen , Santanu Sinha

Based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics we derive a set of general equations relating the partial volumetric flow rates to each other and to the total volumetric flow rate in immiscible two-phase flow in porous media. These equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-20 Alex Hansen , Santanu Sinha , Dick Bedeaux , Signe Kjelstrup , Isha Savani , Morten Vassvik

We use novel, fast 4D Synchrotron X-ray imaging with large field-of-view to reveal pore- and macro-scale drainage dynamics during gas-brine flow through a layered sandstone rock sample. We show that a single centimetre-scale layer, similar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-10 Catrin Harris , Sam Krevor , Ann H Muggeridge , Michael Camilleri , Samuel J. Jackson

Simulating the flow of two fluid phases in porous media is a challenging task, especially when fractures are included in the simulation. Fractures may have highly heterogeneous properties compared to the surrounding rock matrix,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Enrico Ballini , Luca Formaggia , Alessio Fumagalli , Eirik Keilegavlen , Anna Scotti

Fluid flow through bimodal porous media, characterized by a distinct separation in pore size distribution, is critical in various scientific and engineering applications, including groundwater management, oil and gas production, and carbon…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-06 Yuhe Wang , Yating Wang

In this study, we investigate the appeared complexity of two-phase flow (air-water) in a heterogeneous soil where the supposed porous media is non-deformable media which is under the time-dependent gas pressure. After obtaining of governing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-05-20 Hamed . O. Ghaffari

We study solute-laden flow through permeable geological formations with a focus on advection-dominated transport and volume reactions. As the fluid flows through the permeable medium, it reacts with the medium, thereby changing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Mina Karimi , Kaushik Bhattacharya

The problem of the flow trough a porous media is formulated in terms of a pressure equation, based on arguments of volume conservation which state the mechanical equilibrium between the solid and the fluid phases. In the resulting governing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-19 Francisco Mandujano Carlos Málaga

A consistent and conservative Phase-Field method, including both the model and scheme, is developed for multiphase flows with an arbitrary number of immiscible and incompressible fluid phases. The consistency of mass conservation and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

We study average flow properties in porous media using a two-dimensional network simulator. It models the dynamics of two-phase immiscible bulk flow where film flow can be neglected. The boundary conditions are biperiodic which provide a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Arendt Knudsen , Alex Hansen

In this study, we investigate the appeared complexity of two-phase flow (air/water) in a heterogeneous soil where the supposed porous media is non-deformable media which is under the timedependent gas pressure. After obtaining of governing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-09-01 Hamed O. Ghaffari

We consider a simplified model of a two-phase flow through a heterogeneous porous medium, in which the convection is neglected. This leads to a nonlinear degenerate parabolic problem in a domain shared in an arbitrary finite number of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Clément Cancès , Thierry Gallouet , Alessio Porretta

This work presents a macroscopic model for the flow of two immiscible and incompressible fluids within inhomogeneous porous media. At the pore scale, the flow is governed by the full Navier-Stokes equations while the phase interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Chunhua Zhang , Peiyao Liu , Cheng Peng , Lian-Ping Wang , Zhaoli Guo

An outstanding characteristic of porous media, desired in many applications, is the large surface area, which facilitates solid-fluid interactions, making porous media an extreme case in colloid and interface science. In two-fluid systems,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-23 Steffen Berg , Ryan T. Armstrong , Maja Rücker , Alex Hansen , Signe Kjelstrup , Dick Bedeaux

This paper is concerned with the Richards equation in a heterogeneous domain, each subdomain of which is homogeneous and represents a rocktype. Our first contribution is to rigorously prove convergence toward a weak solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Sabrina Bassetto , Clément Cancès , Guillaume Enchéry , Quang-Huy Tran