Modelling two-phase flow in porous media at the pore scale using the volume-of-fluid method

By Ali Q. Raeini, Martin J. Blunt, Branko Bijeljic. Journal of Computational Physics, 2012

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Direct simulations of two-phase flow on micro-CT images of porous media and upscaling of pore-scale forces (2014, methodology): “The details of the numerical implementation can be found in [44,45].”
Pore‐by‐pore capillary pressure measurements using X‐ray microtomography at reservoir conditions: Curvature, snap‐off, and remobilization of residual CO2 (2014, methodology): “(d) The pressure field calculated using finite-volume method in OpenFOAM [Bijeljic et al., 2013b; Raeini et al., 2012].”
Benchmark numerical simulations of segmented two-phase flows in microchannels using the Volume of Fluid method (2013, unknown): “reduce the parasitic currents is applying a smoother to the VOF function in the interfacial region [33–35].”
Pore-Scale Simulations of Gas Displacing Liquid in a Homogeneous Pore Network Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (2013, methodology): “…number for most traditional CFD methods and multiphase LBM models, because the unphysical spurious velocities at the interface can be the same order of magnitude as the characteristic flow velocity, thus contaminating the numerical solutions or inducing numerical instability (Raeini et al. 2012).”