injection flows in a heterogeneous porous medium ching-yao chen & p.-y. yan department of...
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Injection Flows in a Heterogeneous Porous
MediumChing-Yao Chen & P.-Y. YanChing-Yao Chen & P.-Y. Yan
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical Engineering National Chiao Tung UniversityNational Chiao Tung University
Complex Fluid Dynamics Lab. (CFD Lab.)
International Conference on Progress in Fluid Dynamics and Simulation
Celebrating the 60th Birthday Anniversary of Tony Wen-Hann Sheu
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Prof. Tony Sheu,
Happy 60th Birthday Anniversary!
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Viscous Fingering• A less viscous fluid displacing a more viscous fluid• Applications on Enhanced Oil Recovery & CO2 Storage
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Sweeping Efficiency
Residual Oils
Interfacial Instability (Viscous Fingering ) leads to less efficient oil recovery, due to shield effects of the fingers. More residual oils are left behind.
Miscible Five-Spot Displacement (Claridge, 1986)
Residual Oils
Immiscible Rectilinear Displacement (Maxworthy et al., 1986)
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Hele-Shaw Cell and Porous Medium
Pk
UPorous Medium : Darcy’s Law
Hele-Shaw Equation2
12P
h
U
Hele-Shaw flow is mathematically similar to a 2-D porous medium flow (k=h2/12).
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Radial Hele-Shaw Flows
Radial flow configurations:Radial flow configurations:
1. Rotation : density2. Injection/Suction : viscosity3. Vertical Lifting : viscosity
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Phase Field Approach : Hele-Shaw-Cahn-Hilliard equations(associated with constant density)
Surface free energy
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Miscibility
f0 = c2(1 − c)2
f0 = 0.5(c−0.5)2
Profiles of specific interfacial free energy f0
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Immiscible Rotating Flows
(Chen etal., PRE 2011)
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Immiscible Rotation
Specific free energy : f0 = c2(1 − c)2
Surface tension :
Rotating Bond number :
Experiment : A=0.4~0.5, Bo~4x10Experiment : A=0.4~0.5, Bo~4x10-4-4
((Alvarez-Lacalle et al., 2004 ))Present simulation : Present simulation : A=0.46, Bo=7.45x10A=0.46, Bo=7.45x10-4-4
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Number of Fingers vs. Bo
(1) Smaller values of Bo lead to a larger number of fingering structures.
(2) Favored occurrence of droplet emissions when Bo is decreased.(3) Excellent agreement with the analytical results is achieved.
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Immiscible Suction Flows(Chen et al., PRE 2014)
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Immiscible Suction Suction
Numerical simulations showing typical fingering patterns at times t=0.65, and the breakthrough time tb, for increasingly larger values of the capillary number: Ca=1342 (tb =0.834), Ca=2683 (tb=0.752), and Ca=536 (tb=0.684).
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Time evolution of the number of fingers Nf for different values of the capillary number Ca. Corresponding analytical predictions for the number of fingers (nmax) are also shown. Good general agreement is obtained.
(Miranda & Widom, 1998)
Number of Fingers vs. Ca
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Miscible/Immiscible Injections
in Heterogeneous Porous Medium
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Governing Equations
Dimensionless control parameters
Permeability (Shinozuka & Jen 1972, Chen & Meiburg 1998)
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Numerical Schemes
• Phase Concentration equation :Phase Concentration equation : - 3rd order Runge-Kutta procedure in time - 6th order compact finite difference in space
• Hele-Shaw equations : Vorticity-Streamfunction Hele-Shaw equations : Vorticity-Streamfunction
- potential velocity - potential velocity : :
- - vorticity equation vorticity equation :: 6th order compact finite difference
- Poisson (streamfunction) equation- Poisson (streamfunction) equation : : y-direction - 6th order compact finite difference x-direction pseudo-spectral scheme
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Immiscible/Homogeneous (s=0) - Surface Tension
Pe=3E3, A=0.922, C=1E-5, D0=0.15, I=1&5
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Miscible Injection : l=0.02
s=0 (Homo)
s=0.3
s=0.6
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Miscible Injection : l=0.02
Evolutions of fingering interfaces presented in a polar coordinate at t=1/3, 2/3 and terminated time for s=0, 0.3 and 0.6.
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Miscible Injection : l=0.02
The rotational component of streamlines superimposed on the correspondent permeability distribution (top row) and total streamlines (bottom row) for s=0, s=0.3 and s=0.6.
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Miscible Injection : s=0.6
l=0.05
l=0.1
l=0.2
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Immiscible Injection : l=0.02
s=0.3
s=0.6
s=0 (Homo)
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Immiscible Injection : l=0.02
Evolutions of fingering interfaces presented in a polar coordinate at t=1/3, 2/3 and terminated time for s=0, 0.3 and 0.6.
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Immiscible Injection : l=0.02
The rotational component of streamlines superimposed on the correspondent permeability distribution (top row) and total streamlines (bottom row) for s=0, s=0.3 and s=0.6.
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Channeling Width
(1) Monotonically increased by larger variations
(2) Resonant effects : maximum at intermediate correlation lengths
(3) More significant in miscible condition without constraint by surface tension
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Normalized Interfacial Length
(1) Monotonically increased by larger variations in smaller correlation lengths due to actively side-branches
(2) Insignificant influences by variations in larger correlation length without vigorous size-branches
(3) More significant in miscible condition without constraint by surface tension
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Summary• Phase-field approach based on HSCH model is capable to
simulate both miscible and immiscible conditions by properly taking interfacial free energy functions.
• Influences of statistical parameters dominated the permeability heterogeneity, e.g. correlations length and variation, are studied systemically.
• Channeling and side-branches are enhanced by permeability heterogeneity.
• Due to insignificant side-branches in large correlation length, Interfacial lengths show independences on variation.
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Thank You!