The Role of Local Instabilities in Fluid Invasion into Permeable Media

Abstract Wettability is an important factor which controls the displacement of immiscible fluids in permeable media, with far reaching implications for storage of CO2 in deep saline aquifers, fuel cells, oil recovery, and for the remediation of oil contaminated soils. Considering the paradigmatic ca...

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Main Authors: Kamaljit Singh, Hagen Scholl, Martin Brinkmann, Marco Di Michiel, Mario Scheel, Stephan Herminghaus, Ralf Seemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00191-y