Submission 2025
| Submitted by: | Lixing Lin |
| Department: | Civil + Environmental Engineering |
| Faculty: | Engineering |
In last year’s Images of Research, I submitted a petroleum engineer’s perspective on oil and gas systems at different scales. This year, I continue that multi-scale exploration—this time focusing on how water moves through rocks to displace oil. The image follows a visual journey of fluid flow, starting with a rock core and progressing through a Hele-Shaw cell, a microfluidic chip, and finally to a microscopic view of individual pore spaces. Each stage reveals how fluids interact within porous media. The progressive investigation shows the shift from black box observations to detailed pore-scale dynamics. By visually connecting core-scale behavior with microscale mechanisms, this work helps understand the complex capillary imbibition processes that govern subsurface fluid flow in fractured subsurface reservoirs.
Was your image created using Generative AI?
No.
How was your image created?
Images are taken from my publications and put together in PowerPoint.
Where is the image located?
Fluid flow in porous media lab.