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Getting out of a tight spot: Cooperative unclogging of hydrogel particles in disordered porous media
Sanjana Kamath, Laurent Talon, Meera Ramaswamy +2
We use event-driven pore network modeling to study the transport of hydrogel particles through disordered porous media -- a process that underlies diverse applications. By simulati…
Harnessing elastic instabilities for enhanced mixing and reaction kinetics in porous media
Christopher A. Browne, Sujit S. Datta
Turbulent flows have been used for millennia to mix solutes; a familiar example is stirring cream into coffee. However, many energy, environmental, and industrial processes rely on…
Fluid drainage in erodible porous media
Joanna Schneider, Christopher A. Browne, Malcolm Slutzky +3
Drainage, in which a nonwetting fluid displaces a wetting fluid from a porous medium, is well-studied for media with unchanging solid surfaces. However, many media can be eroded by…
Elastic turbulence homogenizes fluid transport in stratified porous media
Christopher A. Browne, Richard B. Huang, Callie W. Zheng +1
Many key environmental, industrial, and energy processes rely on controlling fluid transport within subsurface porous media. These media are typically structurally heterogeneous, o…
Infection percolation: A dynamic network model of disease spreading
Christopher A. Browne, Daniel B. Amchin, Joanna Schneider +1
Models of disease spreading are critical for predicting infection growth in a population and evaluating public health policies. However, standard models typically represent the dyn…
Elastic turbulence generates anomalous flow resistance in porous media
Christopher A. Browne, Sujit S. Datta
Diverse processes rely on the viscous flow of polymer solutions through porous media. In many cases, the macroscopic flow resistance abruptly increases above a threshold flow rate…
Forced Imbibition in Stratified Porous Media
Nancy B. Lu, Amir A. Pahlavan, Christopher A. Browne +3
Imbibition plays a central role in diverse energy, environmental, and industrial processes. In many cases, the medium has multiple parallel strata of different permeabilities; howe…
Bistability in the Unstable Flow of Polymer Solutions Through Porous Media
Christopher A. Browne, Audrey Shih, Sujit S. Datta
Polymer solutions are often injected in porous media for applications such as oil recovery and groundwater remediation. As the fluid navigates the tortuous pore space, elastic stre…
Pore-Scale Flow Characterization of Polymer Solutions in Microfluidic Porous Media
Christopher A. Browne, Audrey Shih, Sujit S. Datta
Polymer solutions are frequently used in enhanced oil recovery and groundwater remediation to improve the recovery of trapped non-aqueous fluids. However, applications are limited…
Controlling capillary fingering using pore size gradients in disordered media
Nancy B. Lu, Christopher A. Browne, Daniel B. Amchin +2
Capillary fingering is a displacement process that can occur when a non-wetting fluid displaces a wetting fluid from a homogeneous disordered porous medium. Here, we investigate ho…