Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

✍ Scribed by Bruno Ferréol, Daniel H. Rothman (auth.), Pierre M. Adler (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-1
Lattice-Boltzmann Simulations of Flow Through Fontainebleau Sandstone....Pages 3-20
Simulation of Capillary-Dominated Displacements in Microtomographic Images of Reservoir Rocks....Pages 21-35
Surface Tension Models with Different Viscosities....Pages 37-76
Three-Phase Flow and Gravity Drainage in Porous Media....Pages 77-103
Fluid Distribution and Pore-Scale Displacement Mechanisms in Drainage Dominated Three-Phase Flow....Pages 105-133
Generalized Relative Permeability Coefficients during Steady-State Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media, and Correlation with the Flow Mechanisms....Pages 135-168
Effective Properties for Flow Calculations....Pages 169-196

✦ Subjects

Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Fluid- and Aerodynamics; Mathematics Education; Terrestrial Pollution