The underlying mechanism for spontaneous imbibition in a water–gas system plays significant role hydraulic fracturing sandstone gas reservoirs. objective of this study is to characterize the heterogeneity low-permeability sandstones and investigate their effect on from perspective pore scale. We selected different cores with various structures evaluate impact dynamics imbibition. heterogeneitie...

We study spontaneous imbibition using a phase field model in a two-dimensional system with a dichotomic quenched noise. By imposing a constant pressure mu(a)<0 at the origin, we study the case when the interface advances at low velocities, obtaining the scaling exponents z=3.0+/-0.1, alpha=1.50+/-0.02, and alpha(loc)=0.95+/-0.03 within the intrinsic anomalous scaling scenario. These results are...

Recent experiments on imbibition in columnar geometries show interfacial fluctuations whose dynamic scaling is not compatible with the usual nonlocal model governed by surface tension that results from a macroscopic description. To explore this discrepancy, we exhaustively analyze numerical integrations of a phase-field model with dichotomic columnar disorder. We find that two distinct behavior...

We present semianalytical solutions for cocurrent displacements with some degree of countercurrent flow. The solution assumes a one-dimensional horizontal displacement of two immiscible incompressible fluids with arbitrary viscosities and saturation-dependent relative permeability and capillary pressures. We address the impact of the system length on the degree of countercurrent flow when there...

Analysis of fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs), as a highly heterogeneous and complex system, requires detailed study the fracture-matrix interactions. The main process movement between fracture matrix is spontaneous imbibition (SI), which can occur co/countercurrent states. In addition, most carbonate rocks are non-water-wet, lead to low oil recovery. Wettability greatly affec...