Numerical simulation of oil-water two-phase flow in porous media
Published 2013-12-23
Keywords
- Darcy law,
- two-phase flow,
- finite volume,
- iMPES,
- porous media
- oil recovery,
- numerical simulation ...More
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Abstract
This work is motivated by the need to better understand the comprehension of two-phase flow water-oil, in the secondary recovery of oil. Two-phase immiscible and incompressible fluids are considered. The generalized Darcy’s is used for modeling fluid flow. for the numerical resolution the separation of the calculation of the pressure and saturation is required. an iMPES formulation of the original model is performed. The pressure equation is solved implicitly and the saturation equation explicitly. The spatial discretization is made by the finite volume method. Numerical simulations are carried out in a three-dimensional porous medium by taking into account injection and production wells. Numerical results highlight the effects of injection pressure, capillary pressure and diffusion.
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