Catherine Spurin

All Publications

• Pore-Scale Fluid Dynamics Resolved in Pressure Fluctuations at the Darcy Scale GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Spurin, C., Roberts, G. G., O'Malley, C. B., Kurotori, T., Krevor, S., Blunt, M. J., Tchelepi, H. 2023; 50 (18)

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2023GL104473

  View details for Web of Science ID 001066651600001

• The FluidFlower Validation Benchmark Study for the Storage of CO2 TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA Flemisch, B., Nordbotten, J. M., Ferno, M., Juanes, R., Both, J. W., Class, H., Delshad, M., Doster, F., Ennis-King, J., Franc, J., Geiger, S., Glaeser, D., Green, C., Gunning, J., Hajibeygi, H., Jackson, S. J., Jammoul, M., Karra, S., Li, J., Matthaei, S. K., Miller, T., Shao, Q., Spurin, C., Stauffer, P., Tchelepi, H., Tian, X., Viswanathan, H., Voskov, D., Wang, Y., Wapperom, M., Wheeler, M. F., Wilkins, A., Youssef, A. A., Zhang, Z. 2023

  View details for DOI 10.1007/s11242-023-01977-7

  View details for Web of Science ID 001051223900002

• Pore-Scale Imaging of Multiphase Flow Fluctuations in Continuum-Scale Samples WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH Wang, S., Spurin, C., Bultreys, T. 2023; 59 (6)

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2023WR034720

  View details for Web of Science ID 001012098900001

• Dynamic mode decomposition for analysing multi-phase flow in porous media ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES Spurin, C., Armstrong, R. T., McClure, J., Berg, S. 2023; 175

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.advwatres.2023.104423

  View details for Web of Science ID 001026035200001

• Red Noise in Steady-State Multiphase Flow in Porous Media WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH Spurin, C., Rucker, M., Moura, M., Bultreys, T., Garfi, G., Berg, S., Blunt, M. J., Krevor, S. 2022; 58 (7)

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2022WR031947

  View details for Web of Science ID 000825342800001

• Determination of the spatial distribution of wetting in the pore networks of rocks. Journal of colloid and interface science Garfi, G., John, C. M., Rucker, M., Lin, Q., Spurin, C., Berg, S., Krevor, S. 1800; 613: 786-795

  Abstract

  HYPOTHESIS: The macroscopic movement of subsurface fluids involved in CO2 storage, groundwater, and petroleum engineering applications is controlled by interfacial forces in the pores of rocks. Recent advances in modelling these systems has arisen from approaches simulating flow through a digital representation of the complex pore structure. However, further progress is limited by difficulties in characterising the spatial distribution of the wetting state within the pore structure. In this work, we show how observations of the fluid coverage of mineral surfaces within the pores of rocks can be used as the basis for a quantitative 3D characterisation of heterogeneous wetting states throughout rock pore structures.EXPERIMENTS: We demonstrate the approach with water-oil fluid pairs on rocks with distinct lithologies (sandstone and carbonate) and wetting states (hydrophilic, intermediate wetting, and heterogeneously wetting).FINDINGS: Fluid surface coverage the within rock pores is a robust signal of the wetting state across varying rock types and wetting states. The wetting state can be quantified and the resulting 3D maps can be used as a deterministic input to pore scale models. These may be applied to multiphase flow problems in porous media ranging from soil science to fuel cells.

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.12.183

  View details for PubMedID 35074705