Looping Network Meetings

#38 February 10, 2023

Monday, 15:00 CET

Bauyrzhan Primkulov

Fluid-fluid displacement in disordered environments

Abstract:
Capillary-dominated systems have a remarkable potential for informing both industrial applications and fundamental science through bench-scale experiments and analogs. This talk overviews the dynamics and patterns that arise when one fluid displaces another in porous media. We use computational models and experiments to examine how wettability, viscous and capillary forces shape these patterns at various scales. We then highlight the emergence of avalanches and stick-slip dynamics in the presence of background disorder and point to similarities with other natural phenomena.

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