Our research article titled "Pore-scale characteristics of multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media using the lattice Boltzmann method" received 2, 521 article downloads in 2019, placing it as one of the top 100 (#16) downloaded physics papers for Scientific Reports in 2019. Scientific Reports published more than 1, 072 physics papers in 2019.

In this paper, we investigated pore-scale dynamics of two-phase flow during primary drainage in a realistic heterogeneous rock sample using the lattice Boltzmann method. Within this context, we conducted a series of three dimensional immiscible displacement simulations to not only quantify fluid flow dynamics but also to characterize pattern formations observed during two-phase flow in 3D porous media under different capillary numbers and viscosity ratios.  More details about this work can be found at:

Bakhshian, S., Hosseini, S.A., Shokri, N. (2019). Pore-scale characteristics of multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media using the lattice Boltzmann method. Sci. Rep., 9, 3377, London: Nature Publishing Group.