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Pore-scale fluid flow simulation coupling lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model

Show Author's Information Jianlin Zhao1 ( ),  Yang Liu2,  Feifei Qin3,  Linlin Fei4
College of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, P. R. China
College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, P. R. China
Institute of Extreme Mechanics and School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, P. R. China
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8092, Switzerland
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flow in porous media, lattice Boltzmann method, pore network model, multiscale simulation, Pore-scale simulation
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Zhao J, Liu Y, Qin F, et al. Pore-scale fluid flow simulation coupling lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model. Capillarity, 2023, 7(3): 41-46. https://doi.org/10.46690/capi.2023.06.01
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The lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model are two types of the most popular pore-scale fluid flow simulation methods. As a direct numerical simulation method, lattice Boltzmann method simulates fluid flow directly in the realistic porous structures, characterized by high computational accuracy but low efficiency. On the contrary, pore network model simulates fluid flow in simplified regular pore networks of the real porous media, which is more computationally efficient, but fails to capture the detailed pore structures and flow processes. In past few years, significant efforts have been devoted to couple lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model to simulate fluid flow in porous media, aiming to combine the accuracy of lattice Boltzmann method and efficiency of pore network model. In this mini-review, the recent advances in pore-scale fluid flow simulation methods coupling lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model are summarized, in terms of single-phase flow, quasi-static two-phase drainage flow and dynamic two-phase flow in porous media, demonstrating that coupling the lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model offers a promising and effective approach for addressing the up-scaling problem of flow in porous media.


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Pore-scale fluid flow simulation coupling lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model

Show Author's information Jianlin Zhao1 ( ), Yang Liu2, Feifei Qin3, Linlin Fei4
College of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, P. R. China
College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, P. R. China
Institute of Extreme Mechanics and School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, P. R. China
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8092, Switzerland

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The lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model are two types of the most popular pore-scale fluid flow simulation methods. As a direct numerical simulation method, lattice Boltzmann method simulates fluid flow directly in the realistic porous structures, characterized by high computational accuracy but low efficiency. On the contrary, pore network model simulates fluid flow in simplified regular pore networks of the real porous media, which is more computationally efficient, but fails to capture the detailed pore structures and flow processes. In past few years, significant efforts have been devoted to couple lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model to simulate fluid flow in porous media, aiming to combine the accuracy of lattice Boltzmann method and efficiency of pore network model. In this mini-review, the recent advances in pore-scale fluid flow simulation methods coupling lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model are summarized, in terms of single-phase flow, quasi-static two-phase drainage flow and dynamic two-phase flow in porous media, demonstrating that coupling the lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model offers a promising and effective approach for addressing the up-scaling problem of flow in porous media.

Keywords: flow in porous media, lattice Boltzmann method, pore network model, multiscale simulation, Pore-scale simulation

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Received: 16 April 2023
Revised: 05 May 2023
Accepted: 20 May 2023
Published: 23 May 2023
Issue date: June 2023

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This work was supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” (No. 2462023QNXZ001).

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