Optimal polymer slugs injection profiles
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2023-06-28 v3 Numerical Analysis
Analysis of PDEs
Numerical Analysis
Abstract
The graded viscosity banks technology (tapering) for polymer flooding is studied for several different models of mixing zones behavior. Depending on the viscosity function the limiting polymer injection profile is rigorously derived for the transverse flow equilibrium model, for the Koval model and for the Todd-Longstaff model. The potential gain in the polymer quantity compared to the profile with a finite number of slugs is numerically estimated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.03114,
title = {Optimal polymer slugs injection profiles},
author = {F. Bakharev and A. Enin and K. Kalinin and Yu. Petrova and N. Rastegaev and S. Tikhomirov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03114},
year = {2023}
}