Previous experimental studies of spontaneous imbibition on chalk core plugs have shown that seawater may change the wettability in the direction of more water-wet conditions in chalk reservoirs. One possible explanation for this wettability alteration is that various ions in the water phase (sulphate, calcium, magnesium, etc.) enter the formation water due to molecular diffusion. This creates a...

A repairable 1 M G / / retrial queue with general retrial times, Bernoulli vacation, setup times and two-phase service is investigated in this paper. Customers are allowed to balk and renege at particular times. We assume that the customers who find the server busy or down are queued in the orbit in accordance with a first-come-first-served (FCFS) discipline. All customers demand the first “ess...

n ABSTRACT This paper presents a theoretical investigation of the movement of liquid droplets and slugs in hydrophobic microchannels and develops a compact model for this type of two-phase flow. This model is used in the prediction of pressure drop and liquid water coverage ratio, key parameters in the operation of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC), the primary motivation for this wor...

We report on experimental and numerical studies of steady-state two-phase flow in a quasi twodimensional porous medium. Experimentally, the wetting and the non-wetting phase are injected simultaneously from alternating inlet points into a Hele-Shaw cell containing one layer of randomly distributed glass beads, initially saturated with wetting fluid. Transient behavior is observed in time and sp...

To approach this goal, we develop a detailed 1D model to describe the DMFC on the electrode and cell level, based on the in-house modeling framework DENIS. A two-phase flow model is implemented for the transport in gas diffusion layer (GDL) and catalyst layer (CL) at the anode side, whereas we consider only the gas phase at the cathode side. Electrochemistry is described by multistep mechanisms...

As a large amount of mobile water exists in the lean zones of oil sands reservoirs, the analytical model considering mobile water can assist in the study of the mechanism on how lean zones affect SAGD performance. In 1981, Butler proposed a theory on the prediction of heavy oil and bitumen production [S1]. In 1991, Butler further obtained the transient expression for temperature distribution du...

A new fluid property module, EOSRn, was developed for TOUGH2 to simulate the transport of the radon gas (Rn) in saturatedunsaturated soils. It is an enhanced version of the EOS7R module for radionuclide transport, with a source term added in the transport equation to model radon generation by emanation from radioactive decay of the soil radium (Ra) content. We implemented physical properties of...

In recent years, compositional modeling and selfexplanatory simulation techniques have simplified the process of building dynamic simulators of physical systems. Building steady-state simulators is, conceptually, a simpler task consisting in solving a set algebraic equations. This simplicity hides delicate technical issues of convergence and search-space size due to the potentially large number...

2. Working Equations of the Vibrating-Wire Instrument Our implementation [1] of the steady-state vibrating-wire technique is similar to that described by Audonnet and Pádua [2] in which the wire is driven at frequency f by a constant sinusoidal current I, and the emf V(f) generated across the vibrating wire is measured with a two-phase lock-in amplifier. This measured emf generally comprises tw...

Fracture flow of two-phase mixtures is particularly applicable to the coal mining and coal bed methane projects in Australia. A one-dimensional steady-state pseudo-two-phase flow model is proposed for fractured rock. The model considers free flow of a compressible mixture of air and water in an inclined planar fracture and is based upon the conservation of momentum and the “cubic” law. The flow...