Capillary Network Model: Capillary Power and Effective Permeability
Soft Condensed Matter
2012-05-09 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Computational Physics
Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
A simple model of two-phase flow in porous media is presented. A connection is made to statistical mechanics by applying capillary power as a constraint. Stochastic sampling is then used to test the validity of this approach. Good agreement is found between stochastic sampling and time stepping for flow-rates above a transition value.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1203.3738,
title = {Capillary Network Model: Capillary Power and Effective Permeability},
author = {Morten Grøva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3738},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pages, 6 figures, thesis version