Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

ISBN-13: 9789048146451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 196 str.

P. M. Adler

Opis

The study of multiphase flow through porous media is undergoing intense development, mostly due to the recent introduction of new methods. After the profound changes induced by percolation in the eighties, attention is nowadays focused on the pore scale. The physical situation is complex and only recently have tools become available that allow significant progress to be made in the area.
This volume on Multiphase Flow in Porous Media, which is also being published as a special issue of the journal Transport in Porous Media, contains contributions on the lattice-Boltzmann technique, the renormalization technique, and semi-phenomenological studies at the pore level. Attention is mostly focused on two- and three-phase flows. These techniques are of tremendous importance for the numerous applications of multiphase flows in oil fields, unsaturated soils, the chemical industry, and environmental sciences.

Spis treści

1: Use of Lattice Boltzmann Techniques. Lattice- Boltzmann simulations of flow through Fontainebleau sandstone; B. Ferréol, D.H. Rothmann. Simulation of capillary-dominated displacements in microtomographic images of reservoir rocks; R.D. Hazlett. Surface tension models with different viscosities; I. Ginzbourg, P.M. Adler. 2: Studies at the Pore Scale. Three-phase flow and gravity drainage in porous media; M. Blunt, et al. Fluid distribution and pore-scale displacement mechanisms in drainage dominated three-phase flow; P.E. Oren, W.V. Pinczewski. Generalized relative permeability coefficients during steady-state, two-phase flow in porous media and correlation with the flow mechanisms; D.G. Avraam, A.C. Payatakes. 3: Renormalization. Effective properties for flow calculations; M.J. King, et al.