{"id":5396,"date":"2025-05-02T16:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/?page_id=5396"},"modified":"2025-05-12T10:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:33:17","slug":"from-core-to-pore-how-water-moves-through-tiny-spaces-to-displace-oil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/from-core-to-pore-how-water-moves-through-tiny-spaces-to-displace-oil","title":{"rendered":"From Core to Pore: How Water Moves Through Tiny Spaces to Displace Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Submission 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Submitted by:<\/td>Lixing Lin<\/td><\/tr>
Department:<\/td>Civil + Environmental Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Faculty:<\/td>Engineering<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In last year\u2019s Images of Research, I submitted a petroleum engineer\u2019s perspective on oil and gas systems at different scales. This year, I continue that multi-scale exploration\u2014this 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was your image created using Generative AI?<\/em>
No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How was your image created?<\/em>
Images are taken from my publications and put together in PowerPoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where is the image located?<\/em>
Fluid flow in porous media lab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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