Review of Microfluidic Devices and Imaging Techniques for Fluid Flow Study in Porous Geomaterials

Sensors
Amir JahanbakhshM Mercedes Maroto-Valer

Abstract

Understanding transport phenomena and governing mechanisms of different physical and chemical processes in porous media has been a critical research area for decades. Correlating fluid flow behaviour at the micro-scale with macro-scale parameters, such as relative permeability and capillary pressure, is key to understanding the processes governing subsurface systems, and this in turn allows us to improve the accuracy of modelling and simulations of transport phenomena at a large scale. Over the last two decades, there have been significant developments in our understanding of pore-scale processes and modelling of complex underground systems. Microfluidic devices (micromodels) and imaging techniques, as facilitators to link experimental observations to simulation, have greatly contributed to these achievements. Although several reviews exist covering separately advances in one of these two areas, we present here a detailed review integrating recent advances and applications in both micromodels and imaging techniques. This includes a comprehensive analysis of critical aspects of fabrication techniques of micromodels, and the most recent advances such as embedding fibre optic sensors in micromodels for research applications. To co...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
imaging techniques
X-ray
nuclear
scanning
transmission electron tomography
imaging technique
confocal microscopy
Raman
thermal neutron tomography
neutron

Software Mentioned

PEPT
CLSM
FormLab

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