COURSE SCHEDULE
Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
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RES 428 | 17 - 20 Nov 2025 | Online | 1990 |
RES 428 | 15 – 18 Jan 2025 | Online | 1790 |
RES 428 | 21 – 24 Apr 2025 | Oslo | 3490 |
RES 428 | 14 – 17 Oct 2025 | Abu Dhabi | 3490 |
* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!
COURSE OVERVIEW
First, underlying mechanisms of capillarity at various scales are explained. Concepts of immiscibility, fluid-fluid interface, surface tension, surface energy, hydrophobicity, wettability, and pressure are introduced based on molecular phenomena. Next, capillary pressure is defined at the pore scale. It is shown that Young-Laplace equation holds under static conditions. Extension to flow conditions is provided. Then, capillary pressure at the core scale (Darcy scale) is introduced. Methods of measurements of capillary pressure-saturation curves are explained and causes of capillary hysteresis are discussed. An advanced theory of capillarity is introduced and its effects on the modelling of moisture transport in soils and two-phase flow processes are discussed. Computational and experimental studies are presented that investigate new generalized equations in a variety of systems.
COURSE OUTLINE
4 days
Day 1
o Molecular considerations
o Surface tension vs interfacial tension
o Wettability, hydrophobicity, and capillarity
o Rise (or fall) of fluids in a capillary tube
o Definitions of capillary pressure
o Young’s equation and Young-Laplace equation
o Two-phase displacement in a tube
Day 2
o Concepts of representative Elementary Volume (REV) and averaging *
o Link between capillary pressure-saturation curve and pore-scale capillarity *
o Measurement of capillary pressure-saturation curves at core scale
o Features of capillary pressure-saturation curves for hydrophobic & hydrophilic porous media o Derivation of capillarity equation based on principles of rational thermodynamics
Day 3
o Lab measurement of capillary pressure curves: Porous Plate, Centrifuge, and Mercury injection methods
o Capillary pressure-saturation curves under flow conditions; dynamic capillarity theory
o Practical significance of dynamic capillarity in modelling two-phase flow
o Equations of two-phase flow including dynamic capillarity and their behavior
o Pore size distribution calculation using capillary pressure curve
o Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK) EOS
o Peng-Robinson (PR) EOS o Volume Shift
o Three-parameter EOS
o Attraction Term Temperature Dependency
o Mixing Rules
Day 4
o Equations of two-phase flow including dynamic capillarity and their behavior
o Non-equilibrium interphase heat and mass transfer during two-phase flow
in porous media
INSTRUCTOR
Professor Majid Hassanizadeh
Professor Majid Hassanizadeh has accumulated 40 years of experience in the theoretical, experimental, and computational studies of flow and transport in porous media. After earning his PhD from Princeton University in 1979, he joined Abadan Institute of Petroleum Technology, Iran, as an assistant professor. Since 1984, he lives in the Netherlands and he has worked at RIVM Institute, Delft University of Technology, and Utrecht University, where he is currently emeritus professor of hydrogeology. He has more than 300 publications on theories of flow and transport in porous media, pore-network modeling and experimental studies of two-phase flow (tube-scale, micro-model, and core experiments) including studies of low-salinity effect, pore-network modeling of adsorbing solutes in unsaturated soil, transport of colloids and micro-organisms in variably-saturated soil, and novel remediation methods for NAPL-polluted soils. He has been (associated) editor of major journals: Advances in Water Resources, Vadoze Zone Journal, Water Resources Research (2004-2009), and Transport in Porous Media. He is a co-founder and Managing Director of International Society for Porous Media (InterPore). He is elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union (2002) and American Association for Advancement of Science (2007). He was awarded honorary degree of Doctor-Ingenieur from Stuttgart University in 2008, received the von Humboldt prize in 2010 and Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award in 2011, was selected as 2012 Darcy Lecturer by the US National Groundwater Association. He received the Royal Medal of Honor, Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, in 2015, and Robert Horton Medal of Amerian Geophysical Union in 2019. For more information, see https://www.uu.nl/staff/smhassanizadeh.
FAQ
DESIGNED FOR
The course is designed for petroleum engineers, reservoir engineers, experimentalists, and modelers.
COURSE LEVEL
- Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The participants will learn:
o Origin of properties such as wettability and capillarity
o Basic formulas for capillarity at the pore scale
o Capillarity at the core scale
o Laboratory measurement of capillary pressure-saturation relationship
o Capillarity at the reservoir scale and the link to laboratory measurements
o Advanced theories of capillarity and their consequences for modelling two-phase flow through porous media
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