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PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
卷 3, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.054008
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- Eni S.p.A.
- ARCO Chair in Energy Studies
We study experimentally how wettability impacts fluid-fluid-displacement patterns in granular media. We inject a low-viscosity fluid (air) into a thin bed of glass beads initially saturated with a more-viscous fluid (a water-glycerol mixture). Chemical treatment of glass surfaces allows us to control the wetting properties of the medium and modify the contact angle theta from 5 degrees (drainage) to 120 degrees (imbibition). We demonstrate that wettability exerts a powerful influence on the invasion morphology of unfavorable mobility displacements: increasing. stabilizes fluid invasion into the granular pack at all capillary numbers. In particular, we report the striking observation of a stable radial displacement at low capillary numbers, whose origin lies on the cooperative nature of fluid invasion at the pore scale.
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