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This study introduces a pore morphology algorithm that emphasizes the central role of topology in multiphase flow through porous media. Analysis of drainage in lattice-based pore networks identifies two key quantities, the percolation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-27 Fernando Alonso-Marroquin

Clarifying the factors that control the contact angle of a liquid on a solid substrate is a long-standing scientific problem pertinent across physics, chemistry and materials science. Progress has been hampered by the lack of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-11 Robert Evans , Maria C. Stewart , Nigel B. Wilding

Four on-lattice and six off-lattice models for active matter are studied numerically, showing that in contact with a wall, they display universal wetting transitions between three distinctive phases. The particles, which interact via…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Néstor Sepúlveda , Rodrigo Soto

Drainage in porous media can be broken down into two main mechanisms: a primary piston-like displacement of the interfaces through the bulk of pore bodies and throats, and a secondary slow flow through corners and films in the wake of the…

It is well-known that wettability exerts fundamental control over multiphase flow in porous media, which has been extensively studied in uniform-wet porous media. In contrast, multiphase flow in porous media with heterogeneous wettability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-12 Ashkan Irannezhad , Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov , Ruben Juanes , Benzhong Zhao

Multi-component fluid flow simulations in multi-scale porous structures often involve regions that are under-resolved at practical computational resolutions. Accurately capturing the contributions from these unresolved regions is critical.…

The dynamics of dry active matter have implications for a diverse collection of biological phenomena spanning a range of length and time scales, such as animal flocking, cell tissue dynamics, and swarming of inserts and bacteria. Uniting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-07 David Nesbitt , Gunnar Pruessner , Chiu Fan Lee

We present a percolation model that is inspired by recent works on immiscible two-phase flow in a mixed-wet porous medium made of a mixture of grains with two different wettability properties. The percolation model is constructed on a dual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 Jnana Ranjan Das , Santanu Sinha , Alex Hansen , Sitangshu B. Santra

Hypothesis Emerging energy-related technologies deal with multiscale hierarchical structures, intricate surface morphology, non-axisymmetric interfaces, and complex contact lines where wetting is difficult to quantify with classical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-24 Chenhao Sun , James McClure , Steffen Berg , Peyman Mostaghimi , Ryan T. Armstrong

To better understand the temporal behavior of a roughening meniscus driven by capillary forces during the imbibition of a viscous fluid in porous media, we measure the height-height autocorrelation function $C(t)$ using a constant driving…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Viktor K. Horváth , H. Eugene Stanley

Mineral precipitation and dissolution processes in a porous medium can alter the structure of the medium at the scale of pores. Such changes make numerical simulations a challenging task as the geometry of the pores changes in time in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Manuela Bastidas , Carina Bringedal , Iuliu Sorin Pop

As a first step towards a microscopic understanding of the effective interaction between colloidal particles suspended in a solvent we study the wetting behavior of one-component fluids at spheres and fibers. We describe these phenomena…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Bieker , S. Dietrich

We consider collective motion and damping of dipolar Fermi gases in the hydrodynamic regime. We investigate the trajectories of collective oscillations -- here dubbed ``weltering'' motions -- in cross-dimensional rethermalization…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-02 Reuben R. W. Wang , John L. Bohn

We investigate the discretization of Darcy flow through fractured porous media on general meshes. We consider a hybrid dimensional model, invoking a complex network of planar fractures. The model accounts for matrix-fracture interactions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-08 K. Brenner , J. Hennicker , R. Masson , P. Samier

This study presents a novel workflow for constructing hybrid macropore-Darcy models from micro-CT images of microporous rocks. In our approach, macropore networks are extracted using established methods, while the microporosity is…

Porous media with hierarchical structures are commonly encountered in both natural and synthetic materials, e.g., fractured rock formations, porous electrodes and fibrous materials, which generally consist of two or more distinguishable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-18 Si Suo , Mingchao Liu , Yixiang Gan

We present a new approach for the mechanically consistent modelling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions with contact. The fundamental idea consists of combining a relaxed contact formulation with the modelling of seepage through…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Erik Burman , Miguel A. Fernández , Stefan Frei , Fannie M. Gerosa

We study the flow of a micropolar fluid in a thin domain with microstructure, i.e. a thin domain with thickness $\varepsilon$ which is perforated by periodically distributed solid cylinders of size $a_\varepsilon$. A main feature of this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Francisco J. Suárez-Grau

The characterization of the wetting on superhydrophobic surfaces is rather complex. Usual contact angle experiments are difficult to perform and the lateral movement of droplets as well as the pinning at point defects on the surface can…

A linear system of differential equations describing a joint motion of a thermoelastic porous body with a sufficiently large Lame's constants (absolutelty rigid body) and a thermofluid, occupying porous space, is considered. The rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anvarbek Meirmanov