Modelling of imbibition phenomena in two-phase fluid flow through fractured porous media

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hardik S. Patel ◽  
Ramakanta Meher
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Recovery Rate ◽  
Adomian Decomposition Method ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Porous Matrix ◽  
Dimensionless Time ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Adomian Decomposition ◽  
Phase Fluid

AbstractIn this paper, the counter-current imbibition phenomenon in two phase fluid through fracture porous media is discussed and Adomian decomposition method is applied to find the saturation of wetting phase and the recovery rate of the reservoir. A simulation result is developed for the saturation of wetting phase in fracture matrix and in porous matrix for some interesting choices of parametric value to study the recovery rate of the oil reservoir with dimensionless time. This problem has a great importance in the oil recovery process.

Modelling of Imbibition Phenomena in Fluid Flow through Heterogeneous Inclined Porous Media with different porous materials

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hardik S. Patel ◽  
Ramakanta Meher
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Porous Materials ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Recovery Rate ◽  
Adomian Decomposition Method ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Fine Sand ◽  
Heterogeneous Porous Media ◽  
Adomian Decomposition ◽  
Flow Through

AbstractIn this paper, the counter - current imbibition phenomenon is discussed in an inclined heterogeneous porous media with the consideration of two types of porous materials like volcanic sand and fine sand. Adomian decomposition method is applied to find the saturation of wetting phase and the recovery rate of the reservoir. Finally, a simulation result is developed to study the saturation of wetting phase and the optimum recovery rate of reservoir with the choices of some interesting parametric values. This problem has a great importance in the field of oil recovery process.

scholarly journals Experimental study and numerical modeling for enhancing oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs by nanoparticle flooding

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Sepehri ◽  
Babak Moradi ◽  
Abolghasem Emamzadeh ◽  
Amir H. Mohammadi
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Modeling ◽  
Porous Media ◽  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Water Flooding ◽  
Wettability Alteration ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Fluid Properties

Nowadays, nanotechnology has become a very attractive subject in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) researches. In the current study, a carbonate system has been selected and first the effects of nanoparticles on the rock and fluid properties have been experimentally investigated and then the simulation and numerical modeling of the nanofluid injection for enhanced oil recovery process have been studied. After nanofluid treatment, experimental results have shown wettability alteration. A two-phase flow mathematical model and a numerical simulator considering wettability alteration have been developed. The numerical simulation results show that wettability alteration from oil-wet to water-wet due to presence of nanoparticles can lead to 8–10% increase in recovery factor in comparison with normal water flooding. Different sensitivity analyses and injection scenarios have been considered and assessed. Using numerical modeling, wettability alteration process and formation damage caused by entrainment and entrapment of nanoparticles in porous media have been proved. Finally, the net rate of nanoparticles’ loss in porous media has been investigated.

scholarly journals Analytical Treatment and Convergence of the Adomian Decomposition Method for Instability Phenomena Arising during Oil Recovery Process

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramakanta Meher ◽  
Srikanta K. Meher
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Decomposition Method ◽  
Adomian Decomposition Method ◽  
Porous Medium Equation ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Analytical Treatment ◽  
Medium Equation ◽  
Double Phase ◽  
Adomian Decomposition

An abstract result is proved for the convergence of Adomian decomposition method for partial differential equations that model porous medium equation. Moreover, we prove that this decomposition scheme applied to a porous medium equation arising in instability phenomena in double phase flow through porous media is convergent in a suitable Hilbert space. Furthermore, this technique is utilized to find closed-form solutions for the problem under consideration.

scholarly journals Study on Approximate Analytical Method with Its Application Arising in Fluid Flow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Twinkle R. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equation ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Decomposition Method ◽  
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation ◽  
Adomian Decomposition Method ◽  
Variational Iteration Method ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Adomian Decomposition ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Counter Current

This chapter is about the, Variational iteration method (VIM); Adomian decomposition method and its modification has been applied to solve nonlinear partial differential equation of imbibition phenomenon in oil recovery process. The important condition of counter-current imbibition phenomenon as v i = − v n , has been considered here main aim, here is to determine the saturation of injected fluid S i x t during oil recovery process which is a function of distance ξ and time θ , therefore saturation S i is chosen as a dependent variable while x and t are chosen as independent variable. The solution of the phenomenon has been found by VIM, ADM and Laplace Adomian decomposition method (LADM). The effectiveness of our method is illustrated by different numerical.

scholarly journals Effect of Heterogeneity on Imbibition Phenomena in Fluid Flow through Porous Media with Different Porous Materials

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hardik S. Patel ◽  
Ramakanta Meher
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Porous Materials ◽  
Recovery Rate ◽  
Adomian Decomposition Method ◽  
Fine Sand ◽  
Heterogeneous Porous Media ◽  
Adomian Decomposition ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Counter Current ◽  
Optimum Recovery

Abstract In this paper, the counter – current imbibition phenomena in a heterogeneous porous media is studied with the consideration of two types of porous materials like volcanic and fine sand and Adomian decomposition method is applied to find the saturation of wetting phase and the recovery rate of the reservoir. A simulation result is developed here to study the effect of heterogeneity, capillarity and relative permeability on saturation rate and to obtain an optimum recovery rate of the reservoir with the choices of some interesting parametric value.

Modeling two-phase fluid flow and rock deformation in fractured porous media

Poromechanics ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 333-338
Author(s):  
M. Bai ◽  
F. Meng ◽  
J.-C. Roegiers ◽  
Y. Abousleiman
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Fractured Porous Media ◽  
Rock Deformation ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Phase Fluid

scholarly journals Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flows in Heterogeneous Porous Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
I. Carneiro ◽  
M. Borges ◽  
S. Malta
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Heterogeneous Porous Media ◽  
Flow In Porous Media ◽  
High Porosity ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Recovery Method ◽  
Porosity And Permeability

In this work,we present three-dimensional numerical simulations of water-oil flow in porous media in order to analyze the influence of the heterogeneities in the porosity and permeability fields and, mainly, their relationships upon the phenomenon known in the literature as viscous fingering. For this, typical scenarios of heterogeneous reservoirs submitted to water injection (secondary recovery method) are considered. The results show that the porosity heterogeneities have a markable influence in the flow behavior when the permeability is closely related with porosity, for example, by the Kozeny-Carman (KC) relation.This kind of positive relation leads to a larger oil recovery, as the areas of high permeability(higher flow velocities) are associated with areas of high porosity (higher volume of pores), causing a delay in the breakthrough time. On the other hand, when both fields (porosity and permeability) are heterogeneous but independent of each other the influence of the porosity heterogeneities is smaller and may be negligible.

Development of a Numerical Model for Single- and Two-Phase Flow Simulation in Perforated Porous Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed Movahedi ◽  
Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani ◽  
Mohsen Masihi
Keyword(s):  
Porous Media ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Transient Flow ◽  
Accurate Determination ◽  
Flow Simulation ◽  
Velocity Profiles ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Reservoir Properties ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Phase Fluid

Abstract In this paper, we present a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model to perform single- and two-phase fluid flow simulation on two- and three-dimensional perforated porous media with different perforation geometries. The finite volume method (FVM) has been employed to solve the equations governing the fluid flow through the porous media and obtain the pressure and velocity profiles. The volume of fluid (VOF) method has also been utilized for accurate determination of the volume occupied by each phase. The validity of the model has been achieved via comparing the simulation results with the available experimental data in the literature. The model was used to analyze the effect of perforation geometrical parameters (length and diameter), degree of heterogeneity, and also crushed zone properties (permeability and thickness) on the pressure and velocity profiles. The two-phase fluid flow around the perforation tunnel under the transient flow regime was also investigated by considering a constant mass flow boundary condition at the inlet. The developed model successfully predicted the pressure drop and resultant temperature changes for the system of air–water along clean and gravel-filled perforations under the steady-state conditions. The presented model in this study can be used as an efficient tool to design the most appropriate perforation strategy with respect to the well characteristics and reservoir properties.

scholarly journals Effect of nonuniform heat source/sink, and viscous and Joule dissipation on 3D Eyring–Powell nanofluid flow over a stretching sheet

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thirupathi Thumma ◽  
S R Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Heat Source ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Stretching Sheet ◽  
Adomian Decomposition Method ◽  
Friction Reduction ◽  
Nonlinear Flow ◽  
Joule Dissipation ◽  
Oil Pipeline ◽  
Adomian Decomposition ◽  
Source Sink

Abstract The aim of this paper is to explore the effect of heat source/sink, and space- and temperature-dependent viscous and Joule dissipation on 3D magnetohydrodynamic radiating Eyring–Powell nanofluid streamline flow with convective conditions past a stretching sheet. The coupled nonlinear flow, thermal, and species phenomena equations are transformed into a system of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations through suitable similarity transformations with corresponding boundary conditions. The transformed dimensionless equations are then solved analytically with the Adomian decomposition method. A comprehensive study is conducted on the influence of sundry physical dimensionless parameters governing the flow velocity, temperature, and concentration distributions. For parameters of engineering interest, the computed numerical results are presented with the aid of tables. Furthermore, the present solutions agree with the earlier reported results in specific cases, and an excellent correlation is witnessed. The present analysis is of great interest germane to cooling of metallic plates, polishing of artificial heart valves, oil pipeline friction reduction in the oil industry, flow tracers, enhanced oil recovery, and separation processes in chemical industries and petroleum extraction.

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