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Border control! Capillary pressure / saturation relationships in a diphasic flow in a random medium: Influence of the boundary conditions |
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Eve-Agnès Fiorentino, Renaud Toussaint, Marcel Moura, Mihailo Jankov, Gerhard Schäfer, Knut Jørgen Måløy |
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EGU General Assembly 2013
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
| Datensatznummer |
250084003
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Solving problems involving biphasic flows in porous media, at a scale larger than the pore
one, normally requires the use of relationships between pressure and saturation. These allow
the closure of generalized Darcy flow models for two phases, commonly used in hydrology or
large scale problems of diphasic flow in porous media. There are mathematical models which
approximate experimental records with curve-fitting equations. The two most common
models are the Brooks-Corey and van Genüchten ones, they are used to complete a system of
generalized Darcy equations.
The purpose of the current study is the influence of the boundary conditions on the
relationship between pressure and saturation. We perform numerical simulations of drainage
experiments. Water is the wetting fluid and air is the non wetting fluid. The results highlight
the fact that a filter which allows only water to flow at the exit face of the system
modifies both the shape of the curve and the value of the residual saturation. The
pressure of the models that are commonly used does not match with the pressure of
real flows since there is no filter to cross, to flow from an elementary volume to
another.
Experiments performed in transparent Hele-Shaw cells exhibit the same features, showing the
influence of the semi permeable boundary conditions on the pressure-saturation measures
obtained. This effect corresponding to the formation of localized plugging clusters at the
boundaries, is obtained in slow flow conditions, and is independent of any dynamic fingering,
also known to affect such relations (1,2,3).
Modeling flows in open media thus would require to use the central part of the curves
pressure saturation where the effect of the boundaries is the least important, or to modify
properly these relationships to extract the behavior unaffected by boundaries.
References:
(1) Two-phase flow: structure, upscaling, and consequences for macroscopic transport
properties
Renaud Toussaint ; Knut Jørgen Måløy; Yves Méheust; Grunde Løvoll; Mihailo Jankov;
Gerhard Schäfer; Jean Schmittbuhl
Vadose Zone Journal, 2012, 11 (3), pp. vzj2011.0123
(2) Løvoll, G., M. Jankov, K.J. Måløy, R. Toussaint, J. Schmittbuhl, G. Schaefer and Y.
Méheust, Influence of viscous fingering on dynamic saturation-pressure curves in porous
media, Transport in Porous Media, 86, 1, 305-324, 2010
(3) Toussaint, R., G. Løvoll, Y. Méheust, K.J. Måløy and J. Schmittbuhl, Influence of
pore-scale disorder on viscous fingering during drainage, Europhys. Lett., 71, 583
(2005). |
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