Dynamics of viscous penetration in percolation porous media.

We investigate the dynamics of viscous penetration in two-dimensional percolation networks at criticality for the case in which the ratio between the viscosities of displaced and injected fluids is very large. We report extensive numerical simulations that indicate that the scaling exponents for the breakthrough time distribution are the same as the previously reported values computed for the case of unit viscosity ratio. Our results are consistent with the possibility that viscous displacement through critical percolation networks constitutes a single universality class, independent of the viscosity ratio. We also find that the distributions of mass and breakthrough time of the invaded clusters have the same scaling form, but with different critical exponents.