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Effects of intermediate wettability on entry capillary pressure in angular pores Harris Sajjad Rabbani, Vahid Joekar-Niasar, Nima Shokri ⇑ School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Article history: Received 17 February 2016 Accepted 24 March 2016 Available online 25 March 2016 Keywords: Entry capillary pressure Angular pores Intermediate wettability OpenFOAM
a b s t r a c t Entry capillary pressure is one of the most important factors controlling drainage and remobilization of the capillary-trapped phases as it is the limiting factor against the two-phase displacement. It is known that the entry capillary pressure is rate dependent such that the inertia forces would enhance entry of the non-wetting phase into the pores. More importantly the entry capillary pressure is wettability dependent. However, while the movement of a meniscus into a strongly water-wet pore is well-defined, the invasion of a meniscus into a weak or intermediate water-wet pore especially in the case of angular pores is ambiguous. In this study using OpenFOAM software, high-resolution direct two-phase flow simulations of movement of a meniscus in a single capillary channel are performed. Interface dynamics in angular pores under drainage conditions have been simulated under constant flow rate boundary condition at different wettability conditions. Our results shows that the relation between the half corner angle of pores and contact angle controls the temporal evolution of capillary pressure during the invasion of a pore. By deviating from pure water-wet conditions, a dip in the temporal evolution of capillary pressure can be observed which will be pronounced in irregular angular cross sections. That enhances the pore invasion with a smaller differential pressure. The interplay between the contact angle and pore geometry can have significant implications for enhanced remobilization of ganglia in intermediate contact angles in real porous media morphologies, where pores are very heterogeneous with small shape factors. Ó 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
⇑ Corresponding author at: School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, Room C26, The Mill, The University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom. E-mail address:
[email protected] (N. Shokri). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2016.03.053 0021-9797/Ó 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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1. Introduction Understanding of the pore scale physics of immiscible displacement is imperative for maximizing efficiency of many industrial applications, most notably in petroleum industry for enhanced oil recovery [1–3] as well as soil remediation practices [4]. The capillary forces acting on the interfaces separating two immiscible fluids play the primary role in subsurface capillary trapping of hydrocarbons and low recovery factors. To mobilize the capillary trapped ganglia, the mobilization force should overcome entry capillary pressure, which is controlled by wettability conditions and pore size [1]. From computational point-of-view, entry capillary pressure is an essential entity required for simulation of two phase flow in pore network models [5]. Delineating the impact of different variables on entry capillary pressure in angular pore geometries is not as straightforward as in cylindrical pore shapes [6]. Due to the presence of angular corners, interface dynamics and its mathematical formulation become complicated [7]. To calculate the entry capillary pressure, Mayer and Stowe [8] devised an ingenious technique that relied on force balance in non-circular pore geometries. The technique was later further developed by Princen [9] and is referred to as MayerStowe-Princen (MS-P) approach. The principle of MS-P approach has been applied in many analytical [5,10,11] and semi-analytical approaches [12,13] to compute entry capillary pressure in different polygonal cross sections. However, despite its significant value and its applicability in pore-network modelling, MS-P can only be employed under equilibrium conditions. Direct two phase flow simulation provides a unique opportunity to investigate interface dynamics under different wettability conditions at different pore geometries. Unlike traditional pore-network modelling approach where phase distribution is controlled by ‘‘local filling rules” [14], the direct two-phase flow simulation relies on energy balance to simulate displacement process. Ferrari and Lunati [15] performed direct two phase flow simulation to study the impact of capillary number (Ca) and viscosity ratio llinv on entry capillary pressure in strongly dis
water-wet porous system, where ldis is the viscosity of displaced fluid and linv is the viscosity of the invading phase. Capillary number is defined as the ratio of viscous to capillary forces: Ca ¼ linvrqinv , where linv is viscosity of invading fluid, qinv is velocity of invading fluid and r is the interfacial tension. The numerical simulation results demonstrated insensitivity of entry capillary pressure to viscosity ratio and capillary number. This is due to the twodimensionality of the domain, which is not representative for a real porous medium. Further, Raeini et al. [16] formulated an algorithm to simulate two-phase flow in star-shaped pore channels [17], showing increasing entry capillary pressure as the pore body to pore throat contraction ratio increases. Similar to [15], the pore scale study conducted by Raeini et al. [17] was restricted to perfectly water-wet conditions. None of the former studies have investigated the complex interplay of contact angle and pore geometries (corner angle) at intermediate contact angles under dynamic conditions. Since the conventional methodology for calculating the entry capillary pressure – based on balance of forces - can only be applied to a very limited range of water-wet pores, transient analysis of capillary pressure evolution of fluid-fluid interface displacement is required. We analyzed the dynamic evolution of a 3D meniscus at the entrance of a partially-wet pore. Within this context, we delineated the influence of pore angularity on the behaviour of fluid-fluid interfaces by performing finite-volume based numerical simulations using OpenFOAM (which employs ‘‘volume of fluid” method to capture the interface). All simulations were performed at Ca of 107; thus the capillary forces were dominating viscous forces. In
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the following, we first present the governing equations and the numerical methods. Then the simulation results illustrating the dynamics of fluid-fluid interface displacement at different pore geometries and wettability at pore level are presented followed by the interpretation of the results and conclusions. 2. Numerical model 2.1. Governing equations We use OpenFOAM (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) to simulate dynamics of two-phase flow in porous media. The code has been developed in C++ programming language and has been successfully implemented in several porous-media related research studies [15,17,18]. The equations governing incompressible and immiscible displacement in a pore include mass and momentum balances, as follows: Continuity equation reads
r:u ¼ 0
ð1Þ
Momentum balance equation reads
@ qu þ r ðquuÞ ¼ rp þ r ðlðru þ ruT ÞÞ þ f sa @t
ð2Þ
where u is the velocity vector (m s1), q is the density (kg m3), p is the pressure (kg m1 s2), l is the viscosity (kg m1 s1) and f sa is the body force due to the capillary forces acting at the interface (kg m2 s2). In the above system of equations the influence of gravity on flow domain is eliminated and fluid properties (density and viscosity) will vary depending upon the phase present in the computational cell [15]. For interface tracking, the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method introduced by [19] has been used. VOF is relatively straightforward to implement and can accurately model complex interfacial geometries [20]. It involves computation of governing equations using volume indicator function (c), which represents fraction of phases in each grid block as;
8 > < ð0; 1Þ Interface; c2 ½1 Fluid 1; > : ½0 Fluid 2:
At the interface the volume weighted fluid properties that includes density and viscosity are coupled to VOF algorithm as;
q ¼ cq1 þ ð1 cÞq2 l ¼ cl1 þ ð1 cÞl2
ð3Þ ð4Þ
The volume indicator function follows the advection transport as shown in Eq. (5):
@c þ r ðcuÞ þ r ðcð1 cÞur Þ ¼ 0 @t
ð5Þ
where q1 is the density of fluid 1 (kg m3), q2 is the density of fluid 2 (kg m3), l1 is the viscosity of fluid 1 (kg m1 s1), l2 is the viscosity of fluid 2 (kg m1 s1) and ur is the relative velocity between two fluids (m s1). One of the drawbacks of VOF approach is the numerical diffusion of interface, which causes the interface to spread over many cells. This problem is referred to as smearing [21]. Eq. (5) is the modified version of conventional volume of fluid transport equation as it includes additional convection term, known as artificial compression [21] (the last term in Eq. (5)). The motive of introducing this term is to minimize the smearing problem at the fluid-fluid interface which can otherwise be quite cumbersome to resolve with conventional volume of fluid method [21,22]. In addition to interface capturing algorithm, the surface force f sa acting as a source term in the momentum equation was described
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by Continuum Surface Force (CSF) method [23] that can be represented as;
f sa ¼ r12 jrc
ð6Þ
where r12 is the interfacial tension between fluid 1 and fluid 2 (kg s2) and j is the curvature of the interface (m1) computed as;
j ¼ r
rc jrcj
ð7Þ
Eqs. (1)–(5) are discretized using finite volume approach and solved numerically at each time step to obtain primary unknowns p, u and c [17]. Furthermore, the coupling between pressure and velocity equation was based on PISO (Pressure Implicit with Splitting of Operator) algorithm developed by [24]. 2.2. Modelling specifications The numerical domain represents a pore connected to a large reservoir. Different cross sections including square, equilateral triangle and irregular triangle have been considered. The 3D views of pores are shown in Fig. 1(a–c) and the side view of the pore and its connecting reservoir has been shown in Fig. 1(d). Each pore can be described by its shape factor (G) expressed as the ratio of cross-sectional area to the square of perimeter. Furthermore, in all simulations pores are kept much longer than the reservoir. Fluid properties are shown in Table 1. 2.3. Initial and boundary conditions The boundary conditions implemented in simulations can be seen in Fig. 1(d). Initially the interface is located 0.1 mm away from the junction inside the reservoir. As simulation starts the invading phase (fluid 2) is injected in the z direction at a constant flowrate and displaces the receding phase (fluid 1), while the outlet was
Table 1 Fluid properties used in the simulations. Parameter
Symbol
Value
Unit
Interfacial tension Receding phase viscosity Invading phase viscosity Receding phase density Invading phase density
r12 l1 l2 q1 q2
0.07 0.01 0.0001 1000 1000
kg s2 kg m1 s1 kg m1 s1 kg m3 kg m3
kept at atmospheric pressure. The equilibrium contact angle, h, is defined through receding phase imposed to the solid boundaries. In addition, to eliminate the hysteresis effect the advancing and receding contact angles were kept equal and no-slip boundary condition was imposed on the walls [25]. Contact angles of h = 10°, 45° and 60° are simulated. At h = 45° the corner interface would be flat in square pore geometry and this would happen in equilateral triangle pore with h = 60°. 2.4. Spatial and temporal discretization In order to avoid dependency of the interface thickness on the grid size, numerical simulations at different grid resolutions have been carried out. The results of grid independence tests are presented in Fig. A1, showing the variation of c versus length of the simulation domain. The green curves show the grid size where the interface thickness does not change with grid resolution. Number of grid blocks per simulation are shown in Table A1. For a typical run the numerical time step was made adjustable accord ing to the courant number uDt , where Dt is the time step and Dx is Dx the grid block size. The maximum courant number was kept at 0.15 for square geometry and 0.4 in the case of regular and irregular triangle geometry. The simulations were performed using 12-node Intel CPU cluster (Xeon X7542 2.67 GHz) with 4 GB of memory. Only the
Fig. 1. (a–c) 3D views of the pores with different cross sections. (d) A side view of the simulation domain model. Invading phase (fluid 2) is displacing the receding phase (fluid 1) at a capillary number of 107.
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Fig. 2. Post-processing of simulations to calculate the capillary pressure. (a) Phase distribution with red and blue representing receding phase and invading phase respectively. All other colors indicate the transition zone. (b) The interface extracted from the transition zone corresponding to c ¼ 0:5. (c) Curvatures along the interface with the values represented by the color map. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
drainage process was simulated, where invading fluid was acting as a non-wetting phase and receding fluid as a wetting phase unless stated otherwise.
used to calculate the capillary pressure using Eq. (8). The complete post-processing route is shown in Fig. 2. 3. Results and discussions
2.5. Calculation of interface capillary pressure 3.1. Entry capillary pressure The post-processing of numerical results was conducted with Paraview; an open-source visualization application [26]. Capillary pressure at each time step can be obtained by calculating the curvature of the interface;
pc ¼ r12 j
ð8Þ
where pc is the capillary pressure (kg m1 s2). Following [27], the iso-surface of c = 0.5 is considered as the fluid-fluid interface. Then the built-in Paraview plugin was used to evaluate the distribution of mean curvature over the entire interface. Finally, the median value of curvature distribution was
During the drainage while the non-wetting phase enters the pore, wetting phase will move out from the pore. The interface between the fluids which moves normal to the flow direction is referred to as ‘‘main terminal meniscus (MTM)” [28]. Also some parts of the wetting phase remains in the corners. The fluid-fluid interface in the corners is referred to as ‘‘arc meniscus (AM)” as shown in Fig. 3 [29]. In cases where h is equal or greater than critical contact angle (the contact angle at which AM becomes flat) the AM disappears from the corners, resulting in entrapment of receding phase at the junction in form of pendular rings (see Fig. 3) [6].
Fig. 3. Configuration of receding phase (red) and invading phase (blue) in pore models with different wetting conditions. Each image is labeled with receding phase saturation at the junction inside the pore. G indicates the shape factor. The front view of capillary is shown with cross-section of reservoir (bottom) and pore (top). Invading phase is displacing receding phase at Ca of 107. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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The critical contact angle for square geometry is 45° and in the case of equilateral triangle it is 60°. When the contact angle is equal to half corner angle, the interface would be flat, indicating almost zero capillary pressure. Variations in entry capillary pressure profile as MTM passes the junction are shown in Fig. 4. In a water-wet pore (contact angle of 10°) the entry capillary pressure in square cross section increases monotonically until reaching the maximum value as it moves into the pore. However in the case of other two geometries, there is a small dip before the entry capillary pressure increases. This localized reduction in entry capillary pressure may correspond to enhanced local and temporal unstable fluid meniscus. Instability in the meniscus triggered due to rapid change in the size of confined region, makes it less resistant against the flow and elevates the local velocities as seen in Fig. 5. It is evident from Fig. 5 that in square geometry the rise in velocity occurs quite late and is not steep compared to both triangular geometries; as a result the impact of instability on the dynamics of interface is more significant in triangular pore geometries than in square pore. To further illustrate the phenomenon, Fig. 6 has been presented which shows vector plot of flow domain as invading fluid enter the pore. The motion of interface can be described in four key steps.
Fig. 5. Variation in interface velocity as the interface enters the pore with h = 10°. All velocity values are scaled with respect to 1.0 104 m s1.
First, there is a coflow of immiscible fluids (both invading and receding fluid from the corners of junction flow in same direction), that allows the meniscus to relax against capillary forces [30] as
Fig. 4. Evolution of entry capillary pressure at meniscus entering pores with different cross sections and contact angles. X-axis represents the cross sectional saturation of the invading fluid at the pore entrance.
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shown in Fig. 6(a). Second, as meniscus makes contact with the pore wall and inflates, the intensity of coflow process decreases due to change in trajectory of corner flow shown in Fig. 6(b). During this phase the entry capillary pressure increases linearly with decrease in receding fluid saturation. Third, flow of fluid in the corners is directed downward from tip to neck of MTM [31], at this point the entry capillary pressure is maximum as shown in Fig. 6 (c). The numerical results presented in this investigation indicates that for a pore of given inscribed radius, the maximum entry capillary pressure is inversely related to the shape factor and contact angle which is in agreement with previous studies [6,10,32]. Fourth, imbibition initiates at the neck of MTM inaugurating Plateau-Rayleigh instability (Fig. 6(d)); this period is clearly visible in Fig. 4(c) after reaching maximum value, the entry capillary pressure in irregular triangle geometry decreases. Evolution of the interface in different pore cross sections as it advances from reservoir into the pore under different wetting conditions are presented in Fig. A2. The oscillations exhibited in the entry capillary pressure profile near the junction as wettability changes from perfect to partial wet (h = 45° and 60°) become more pronounced with decrease of the shape factor in angular pores. Inspection of Fig. 3 indicates that as the interface progress into the partially-wet pore, thermodynamically driven rupturing of receding phase film occurs at the junction, this along with coflow process declines the capillary pressure trend of all three pore models as shown in Fig. 4(b) and (c). At h = 60° the capillary behaviour of interface as a consequence of film rupturing changes from drainage to imbibition in both triangle pore models, whereas in square pore model the change is not observed. This phenomenon can be rationalized by examining the variations in morphology of the interface shown in Fig. A2. In equilateral and irregular triangle pore cross-section, the capillary forces imbibe the corners of interface while the MTM is just at the junction. During this phase MTM is almost flat causing the overall curvature of the interface to be dictated by the AM (change in curvature of AM as seen in triangle pore models; see Fig. 3). However, in square pores the rupturing of film is initiated while the MTM is above the junction, causing the entry capillary pressure to remain positive. Results reported in Figs. 3 and 4 clearly manifest that in pore network models similar to the pore body and pore throat, it is important to model junction as a separate entity. Ignoring it can lead to unrealistic flow scenarios. Practical implication of our numerical results in terms of remobilization of trapped phase is demonstrated schematically in Fig. 7. During water flooding, in order to invade the pore throat, the local pressure gradient across the interface should overcome the entry capillary pressure. More importantly under same wettability conditions the entry capillary pressure across different pore geometries varies significantly. For example according to Fig. 4 (c), at h = 60° in both triangular pore geometries the entry capillary pressure at the moment of entree can drop sharply, while this behaviour is less visible in square pore geometry. This drop of entry capillary pressure may indicate an easier remobilization of the trapped nonwetting phase for intermediate saturations when the shape factor is smaller. It is worthwhile to mention that in real porous media and rock formation the shape factor can vary mostly in the range of triangular pores [32,34]. 3.2. Comparison with analytical solutions In this section the maximum entry capillary pressure estimated from simulation results will be compared with the one derived from MS-P method and equation proposed in the present study. The entry capillary pressure for rectangular cross sections can be calculated using the following analytical solution (2):
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Fig. 6. Vector plot showing flow direction of fluids as advancing phase (blue) penetrates and displaces receding phase (red) in the equilateral triangle pore. The black arrow represents flow direction for fluid residing the corner. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
Fig. 7. Schematic of water flooding to mobilize the trapped oil phase. The flow direction is from left to right. The driving force acting on imbibition interface marked blue tends to increase the pressure gradient between oil and water phase at the drainage interface. To remobilize the oil, it is vital for the driving force to overcome the capillary forces that are resisting mobilization of the trapped phase (figure adapted and modified from [33]). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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Fig. 8. Comparison between theoretical and simulation results for (a) 10°, (b) 45° and (c) 60° contact angles. (d) Shows variation in interface shape as it advances towards the apex at different contact angle and corner angle.
rffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi 0 ffi11 pffiffiffi p 2 2 h þ 4ab p h ða þ bÞ cosðhÞ þ ða þ bÞ cos 2 cos þ h cos h 4 4 C B C pc ¼ r12 B pffiffiffi p A @ p 4 4 h 2 cos 4 þ h cos h
where pc is the entry capillary pressure (pascal), a is the length (m) and b is the width (m) of the capillary cross-section. For equilateral triangular geometries, the following equation can be used as reported in [6];
pc ¼ r12
sffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi ffi! 1 p=6 þ h pffiffiffi sin 2h þ p 1 cos h þ p=2 2 3
ð10Þ
ð9Þ
For irregular geometries, the entry capillary pressure can be calculated using Eq. (11) derived by [35] as;
0
pc
qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi1
pffiffiffiffiffiffiffi 4GD r12 ð1 þ 2 pGÞ cos h @1 þ 1 þ cos2 hA pffiffiffiffiffiffiffi ¼ ri 1 þ 2 pG
where ri is the radius of inscribed 2h D ¼ p 1 ph=3 þ 3 sin h cos h cos . 4G
ð11Þ circle
(m)
and
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forces that results in contact angle to be different from its actual value [36,37]. Moreover, as the corner of pore gets smaller the dissipation of viscous stress at three-phase contact line escalates; this enhances the deformation of interface caused by the dynamic effects [36]. 4. Summary and conclusions In this paper, direct two phase flow simulation was performed to investigate variations in the interface behaviour in angular pores under a wide range of wetting conditions. Our results offer new and fundamental insights regarding entry capillary pressure into pores; essential information for accurate description of flow in porous media. Under partially-wet conditions interface behaviour at the junction is highly unstable, inducing non-monotonicity in the entry capillary pressure trend, which was found to increase with pore angularity. The numerical results show that at h = 60° angular pores with smaller shape factors induce enhancement of the meniscus movement that leads to smaller entry capillary pressure. This is an important phenomenon as it suggests that in natural porous media composed of pores of different shape factors the impact of wettability on entry capillary pressure will be highly nonuniform. One may speculate that the remobilization of trapped oil phase will be easier in triangle or silt type pore geometries rather than circular or square pore throats. Taking into account the non-linear temporal evolution of the entry capillary pressure in the dynamic pore network modelling approach can allow manifestation of multi-phase flow scenarios pertinent to real oil reservoir rocks. Acknowledgment Fig. A1. Showing Grid independence test results.
Table A1 Number of grid blocks per simulation. The grid block size is scaled with respect to inscribed radius of pore shape.
We would like to acknowledge the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to provide the PhD studentship for Harris Rabbani. We would also like to acknowledge the assistance given by IT Services and the use of the Computational Shared Facility at The University of Manchester.
Pore network
Scaled grid block size
Grid blocks
Appendix A
Square Equilateral triangle Irregular triangle
0.05 0.10 0.11
105,000 91,500 73,000
A.1. Grid independence See Fig. A1 and Table A1. A.2. Iso-surface map
Using simple trigonometry relationships, we proposed the following equation to estimate the maximum entry capillary pressure in angular pore shapes.
pc
2pr i r12 cos h 1 pb sinðp 2bÞ ¼ sinðbÞ GP 2
ð12Þ
where b is the half corner angle (degrees) and P is the perimeter of the cross section (m). The comparison between entry capillary pressures predicted by theoretical equations against simulation results are presented in Fig. 8. Although the simulation results are generally in agreement with both theoretical predictions, there is slight discrepancy which could be due to the following two reasons: Firstly, due to the 2D nature of the analytical solutions, the longitudinal curvature of the interface (in flow direction) has been assumed equal to zero [17]. Secondly, our simulation results indicate that even at Ca = 107, the dynamic effects are present. Not only the contact angle will be different from the equilibrium one (see Fig. 8(d)) but also the interface will not have equal mean curvature over the whole interface as shown in Fig. A2. Near threephase contact line, the viscous forces commensurate with capillary
See Fig. A2. A.3. Derivation of proposed equation Using sine rule one can show that (see Fig. A3)
sf ¼
sinð180 2bÞ sf sinðbÞ
At three-phase contact line, viscous forces and capillary forces are comparable [37] so;
sf ¼
sinð180 2bÞ 2b r12 cos hð2pri Þ sinðbÞ 360
The pressure gradient at the interface (Pnw–Pw) that is the total driving force (D) as soon as interface makes contact with solid wall can be written as
D¼
sinð180 2bÞ r12 cos hð2pri Þ sinðbÞ
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Fig. A2. Demonstrating variation in morphology of interface as interface moves from the reservoir to pore under different contact angles.
sinð1802bÞ sinðbÞ
takes into account the angularity of pore shape. From force
balance equation, one can conclude that the total driving force
equals to the summation of capillary force and viscous force. Thus capillary force can be written as
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Fig. A3. (a) Representing configuration of forces under hydrostatic equilibrium, where rws is the surface tension between wetting fluid and solid and rnws is the surface tension between non-wetting fluid and solid. (b) The viscous forces at one of the corners of angular pore can be resolved in form trapezium.
sinð180 2bÞ r12 cos hð2pri Þ sinðbÞ sinð180 2bÞ 2b r12 cos hð2pri Þ sinðbÞ 360 sinð180 2bÞ 2B r12 cos hð2pri Þ 1 ¼ sinðbÞ 360 sinð1802bÞ 2B r cos hð2 p r Þ 1 12 i 360 sinðbÞ
Capillary force ¼
Entry capillary pressure ¼
GP 2
It is important to note that for irregular pore shapes, smallest corner angle should be used.
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