Simulation of Pore-Scale Dispersion in Periodic Porous Media Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Zhu, Yi; Fox, Patrick J.

doi:10.1006/jcph.2002.7189

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“…These include: the mixed-cell method (MCM) [e.g., Acharya et al, 2005;Bryntesson, 2002;Kim et al, 2011;Li et al, 2006;Mehmani et al, 2012;Nogues et al, 2013], random walk [e.g., Sorbie and Clifford, 1991;Bruderer and Bernabe, 2001;Bijeljic et al, 2004;Jha et al, 2011], smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) [e.g., Zhu and Fox, 2002], lattice Boltzmann (LB) [e.g., Kang et al, 2006], and classical Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) [e.g., Shen et al, 2011]. In this work, we employ MCM because of its overall simplicity and computational efficiency.…”

Section: Flow and Transport In Network Modelmentioning

confidence: 43%

A forward analysis on the applicability of tracer breakthrough profiles in revealing the pore structure of tight gas sandstone and carbonate rocks

Mehmani

Prodanović

et al. 2015

Water Resources Research

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We explore tracer breakthrough profiles (TBP) as a macroscopic property to infer the porespace topology of tight gas sandstone and carbonate rocks at the core scale. The following features were modeled via three-dimensional multiscale networks: microporosity within dissolved grains and pore-filling clay, cementation in the absence and presence of microporosity (each classified into uniform, porepreferred, and throat-preferred modes), layering, vug, and microcrack inclusion. A priori knowledge of the extent and location of each process was assumed to be known. With the exception of an equal importance of macropores and pore-filling micropores, TBPs show little sensitivity to the fraction of micropores present. In general, significant sensitivity of the TBPs was observed for uniform and throat-preferred cementation. Layering parallel to the fluid flow direction had a considerable impact on TBPs whereas layering perpendicular to flow did not. Microcrack orientations seemed of minor importance in affecting TBPs.

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Section: Flow and Transport In Network Modelmentioning

confidence: 43%

A forward analysis on the applicability of tracer breakthrough profiles in revealing the pore structure of tight gas sandstone and carbonate rocks

Mehmani

Prodanović

et al. 2015

Water Resources Research

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“…These include the promising lattice Boltzmann method (Shan and Chen 1993;Martys and Chen 1996;Chen and Doolen 1998;Guo and Zhao 2000;Kang et al, 2002;Pan et al, 2006;Hao and Cheng 2010;Aidun and Clausen 2010;Zhang et al, 2014;Wopara 2016) and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (Zhu and Fox 2002;Tartakovsky and Meakin 2006;Tartakovsky et al, 2007a;Shadloo et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2017). The particle methods, while suitable for pore-scale analyses, become inefficient at the meso-scale, e.g.…”

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Review of studies on pore-network modeling of wettability effects on waterflood oil recovery

Wopara¹,

Iyuke²

2018

J. Petroleum Gas Eng.

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Waterflooding has become by far the most widely applied method for enhanced oil recovery, accounting for more than half of oil production worldwide. Changes in the wettability of a porous medium and the chemical composition of the wetting fluid result to changes in oil recovery. In recent time, pore-network modeling has been used increasingly to study the effect of wettability on waterflood oil recovery and multiphase flow properties in different types of petroleum reservoirs. Starting from single pore models of fluid arrangements, computations of relative permeability, interfacial area, mass dissolution rate and many other physical properties have been made. Using realistic representations of the pore spaces of various rock systems, it is now possible to predict many petro-physical properties that govern fluid flow and transport in petroleum reservoir rock systems. Such properties include porosity, permeability, waterflood relative permeability, capillary pressure, phase saturations, and fluid transfer coefficients. This review looks briefly into some of the successes made so far on pore network modeling, with an emphasis on models of wettability trends and oil recovery by waterflooding.

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“…Sphere of influence for SPH particle a. Here r denotes the position vector, u a denotes the velocity of a, W denotes the smoothing function, and b is another SPH particle under the influence of a (i.e., within its sphere of influence) (modified from Zhu and Fox [2002], with permission from Elsevier).…”

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Simulation of the interplay between resident and infiltrating water in partially saturated porous media

Gouet-Kaplan

Tartakovsky

Berkowitz

2009

Water Resources Research

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[1] The interplay between resident water already in the subsurface environment (''old water'') and infiltrating water (''new water'') is examined. A smoothed particle hydrodynamics technique is used to simulate the interplay between old water and new water in a porous medium over a cycle of drainage of old water and infiltration of new water. The effect of varying the average pore size is investigated via the Bond number. Four parameters (maximal mixing amount, minimal average size of old water pockets, mixing value for which the number of old water pockets decreases, and amount of old water remaining in the system for long times) are found to be independent of the average pore size. However, the rate of change is always higher for larger pores. In particular, some old water remains in the system within stable water pockets even after infiltrating new water reaches steady state.Citation: Gouet-Kaplan, M., A. Tartakovsky, and B. Berkowitz (2009), Simulation of the interplay between resident and infiltrating water in partially saturated porous media, Water Resour. Res., 45, W05416,

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Simulation of Pore-Scale Dispersion in Periodic Porous Media Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Cited by 71 publications

References 31 publications

A forward analysis on the applicability of tracer breakthrough profiles in revealing the pore structure of tight gas sandstone and carbonate rocks

A forward analysis on the applicability of tracer breakthrough profiles in revealing the pore structure of tight gas sandstone and carbonate rocks

Review of studies on pore-network modeling of wettability effects on waterflood oil recovery

Simulation of the interplay between resident and infiltrating water in partially saturated porous media

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