Multiphase Flow Simulation in Heterogeneous Porous Media using a Hybrid FVM-FEM Scheme

Hybrid Finite Volume Scheme for a Two-phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media

We propose a finite volume method on general meshes for the numerical simulation of an incompressible and immiscible two-phase flow in porous media. We consider the case that can be written as a coupled system involving a degenerate parabolic convection-diffusion equation for the saturation together with a uniformly elliptic equation for the global pressure. The numerical scheme, which is impli...

Numerical Simulation of Three-Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media

We describe an efficient numerical simulator, based on an operator splitting technique, for three-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media that takes into account capillary forces, general relations for the relative permeability functions and variable porosity and permeability fields. Our numerical procedure combines a non-oscillatory, second order, conservative central difference scheme for th...

Flow in porous media pore-network models and multiphase flow

In the last 3 years there has been a huge increase in the use of pore-scale modeling to study multiphase flow and transport in porous media. Starting from single pore models of fluid arrangements, computations of relative permeability, interfacial area, dissolution rate and many other physical properties have been made. Combined with a realistic description of the pore space, predictive modelin...

Algebraic Dynamic Multilevel (ADM) Method for Immiscible Multiphase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media with Capillarity

Numerical simulation of non-isothermal multiphase tracer transport in heterogeneous fractured porous media

We have developed a new numerical method for modeling tracer and radionuclide transport through heterogeneous fractured rocks in a non-isothermal multiphase system. The model formulation incorporates a full hydrodynamic dispersion tensor, based on three-dimensional velocity ®elds with a regular or irregular grid in a heterogeneous geological medium. Two di€erent weighting schemes are proposed f...