Characterization of Transport-Enhanced Phase Separation in Porous Media Using a Lattice-Boltzmann Method

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(a) Magnitude of the norm of total velocity throughout the porous medium (solid in back and gray) as well as non-wetting droplets (in red) at and at a given time snapshot ( iterations). (b) Mean seepage velocity, , averaged along the continuous streamlines of the wetting phase. (c) and (d) Magnitude of the norm of seepage velocity (solids are rendered transparently in gray) and non-wetting droplets (in red) for (left) and (right) with at iterations. For better visualization, not all streamlines are reported.

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