Avalanches in strong imbibition
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Author(s)
Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K
Zhao, Benzhong
MacMinn, Christopher W
Juanes, Ruben
Date Issued
December 2022
Journal
Communications Physics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K, Zhao, Benzhong, MacMinn, Christopher W and Juanes, Ruben. 2022. "Avalanches in strong imbibition." Communications Physics, 5 (1).
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Abstract
AbstractSlow 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.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00826-1
