The fluid distribution as a function of height in transition zones is often very complex. This may be due to movement of water-oil contact, tilting of the reservoir at some point in time, leak of fluid out of the reservoir zone or complex inflow during secondary migration. The resultant fluid distribution seen in saturation logs may be difficult to model. In this paper we address the changes in...

The formation of preferential flow paths during infiltration of water into homogeneous, dry soil is an important phenomenon whose explanation and prediction have remained elusive under the standard theories of multiphase flow in porous media. We have recently proposed a macroscopic phase-field model of unsaturated flow in porous media, which explains why such fingering occurs [L. Cueto-Felguero...

For help in preparation of this article, thanks to Austin Boyd, Gabriela Leu and Romain Prioul, Boston; Ray Kennedy, Edmonton; Patrice Ligneul, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; John McCullagh, Sugar Land, Texas, USA; Guillemette Picard, Clamart, France; Raghu Ramamoorthy, Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Alan Sibbit, Moscow. Thanks also to the participants of the May 2007 Schlumberger Wettability Workshop, Bahrain. E...

Abstract: Enhanced foam flooding is a chemical flooding technology, which is applied to improve the recovery efficiency of oil and gas. The oil displacement agent of enhanced foam flooding is a foam that the polymer and surfactant solution as liquid. In this paper, three-dimensional mathematical model of unsteady flow is established about enhanced foam system in the porous media, and the numeri...

This work is a primary achievement in studying the CO2 and N2–oil systems. To predict gas-liquid relative permeability curves, a Shan-Chen type multicomponent multiphase lattice Boltzmann model for two-phase flow through 2D porous media is developed. Periodic and bounce back boundary conditions are applied to the model with the Guo scheme for the external body force (i.e., the pressure gradient...

Abstract A finite element method with mass-lumping and flux upwinding is formulated for solving the immiscible two-phase flow problem in porous media. The approximates directly wetting phase pressure saturation, which are primary unknowns. discrete saturation satisfies a maximum principle. Stability of scheme existence solution established.

Smart actuators, such as shape memory alloy (SMA) and magnetostrictive actuators, exhibit saturation nonlinearity and hysteresis that may be symmetric or asymmetric. The Prandtl–Ishlinskii model employing classical play operators has been used to describe the hysteresis properties of smart actuators that are symmetric in nature. In this study, the application of a generalized play operator capa...

The capillary pressure–saturation relationship, Pc(Sw), is an essential element in modeling two-phase flow in porous media (PM). In most practical cases of interest, this relationship, for a given PM, is obtained experimentally, due to the irregular shape of the void space. We present the Pc(Sw) curve obtained by basic considerations, albeit for a particular class of regular PM. We analyze the ...

Wettability alteration that occurs as a result of changing the brine composition or using chemicals lower interfacial tension can significantly alter mobility nonaqueous liquid (NAPL)/water phases. Here, we show including dynamic wettability alternation (moving from non-water-wet to water-wet) interpolating between two sets relative permeability curves may create an unstable displacement reside...