Avalanches in strong imbibition

Slow injection of non-wetting fluids (drainage) and strongly wetting fluids (strong imbibition) into porous media are two contrasting processes in many respects: the former must be forced into the pore space, while the latter imbibe spontaneously; the former occupy pore bodies, while the latter coat...

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Main Authors: Juanes, R. (Author), MacMinn, C.W (Author), Primkulov, B.K (Author), Zhao, B. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Research 2022
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520 3 |a Slow injection of non-wetting fluids (drainage) and strongly wetting fluids (strong imbibition) into porous media are two contrasting processes in many respects: the former must be forced into the pore space, while the latter imbibe spontaneously; the former occupy pore bodies, while the latter coat crevices and corners. These two processes also produce distinctly different displacement patterns. However, both processes evolve via a series of avalanche-like invasion events punctuated by quiescent periods. Here, we show that, despite their mechanistic differences, avalanches in strong imbibition exhibit all the features of self-organized criticality previously documented for drainage, including the correlation scaling describing the space-time statistics of invasion at the pore scale. © 2022, The Author(s). 
650 0 4 |a Displacement patterns 
650 0 4 |a Mechanistic differences 
650 0 4 |a Non-wetting fluids 
650 0 4 |a Pore space 
650 0 4 |a Porous materials 
650 0 4 |a Porous medium 
650 0 4 |a Quiescent period 
650 0 4 |a Scalings 
650 0 4 |a Self-organized criticality 
650 0 4 |a Spacetime 
650 0 4 |a Wetting 
650 0 4 |a Wetting fluid 
700 1 |a Juanes, R.  |e author 
700 1 |a MacMinn, C.W.  |e author 
700 1 |a Primkulov, B.K.  |e author 
700 1 |a Zhao, B.  |e author 
773 |t Communications Physics