Relative permeability and capillary pressure functions of porous media as related to the displacement growth pattern

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  • M. A. Theodoropoulou
  • V. Sygouni
  • V. Karoutsos
  • C. D. Tsakiroglou
چکیده

Visualization experiments of the unsteady immiscible displacement of a fluid by another are performed on glass-etched pore networks of well-controlled morphology by varying the fluid system and flow conditions. The measured transient responses of the fluid saturation and pressure drop across the porous medium are introduced into numerical solvers of the macroscopic two-phase flow equations to estimate the non-wetting phase, krnw, and wetting phase, krw, relative permeability curves and capillary pressure, Pc, curve. The correlation of krnw, krw, and Pc with the displacement growth pattern is investigated. Except for the capillary number, wettability, and viscosity ratio, the immiscible displacement growth pattern in a porous medium may be governed by the shear-thinning rheology of the injected or displaced fluid, and the porous sample length as compared to the thickness of the frontal region. The imbibition krnw increases as the flow pattern changes from compact displacement to viscous fingering or from viscous to capillary fingering. The imbibition krw increases as the flow pattern changes from compact displacement or capillary fingering to viscous fingering. As the shear-thinning behaviour of the NWP strengthens and/or the contact angle decreases, then the flow pattern is gradually dominated by irregular interfacial configurations, and the imbibition krnw increases. The imbibition Pc is a decreasing function of the capillary number or increasing function of the injected phase viscosity in agreement with the linear thermodynamic theory. 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 0301-9322/$ see front matter 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2005.06.009 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +3

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تاریخ انتشار 2005