by carscat | Mar 21, 2021 | Science Highlights
We encounter three-phase flow in porous media within a range of settings, such as enhanced oil recovery, geologic CO2 sequestration, and groundwater remediation. While an abundance of studies has been performed on the behavior of two fluid phases (e.g. oil/water or...
by carscat | Mar 17, 2021 | Science Highlights
The stable forms of carbon in Earth’s deep interior control storage and fluxes of carbon through the planet over geologic time, impacting the surface climate as well as carrying records of geologic processes in the form of diamond inclusions. However, current...
by carscat | Mar 12, 2021 | Science Highlights
A variety of two‐phase flow experiments, currently available in the literature, are compared to study the effect of fluid relaxation on interfacial area generation. Interfacial area is an important parameter that controls mass transfer in many engineered multiphase...
by carscat | Mar 12, 2021 | Science Highlights
Extreme pressures and temperatures are known to drastically affect the chemistry of iron oxides,resulting in numerous compounds forming homologous seriesnFeOmFe2O3and the appearance of FeO2.Here, based on the results ofin situsingle-crystal x-ray diffraction,...
by carscat | Mar 12, 2021 | Science Highlights
Caprocks play a crucial role in the geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) by preventing its escape and thus trapping it into underlying sequestering reservoirs. An evaluation of interaction-induced alteration of the hydromechanical properties of caprocks is...
by carscat | Mar 8, 2021 | Science Highlights
Water ice becomes a superionic phase under the high pressure and temperature conditions of deep planetary interiors of ice planets such as Neptune and Uranus, which affects interior structures and generates magnetic fields. The solid Earth, however, contains only...
