SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION OF A WETTING FLUID INTO A FRACTURE WITH OPPOSING FRACTAL SURFACES: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION

Spontaneous imbibition (SI) is a capillary-driven flow process, in which a wetting fluid moves into a porous medium displacing an existing non-wetting fluid. This process likely contributes to the loss of fracking fluids during hydraulic fracturing operations. It has also been proposed as a method f...

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