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We have simulated the temporal evolution of pressure due to capillary and viscous forces in two-phase drainage in porous media. We analyze our result in light of macroscopic flow equations for two-phase flow. We also investigate the effect…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eyvind Aker , Knut Jorgen Maloy , Alex Hansen

The solution of a momentum conservation equation for the gas and liquid stream in the flowing element is obtained on the basis of the modern approach to a problem on contact interaction of bodies and mediums. A flowing element, system are:…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. Arsenjev , I. B. Lozovitski , Y. P. Sirik

Multiscale analysis of a degenerate pseudoparabolic variational inequality, modelling the two-phase flow with dynamical capillary pressure in a perforated domain, is the main topic of this work. Regularisation and penalty operator methods…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Mariya Ptashnyk

We study the dynamics of compressible fluids in rotating heterogeneous porous media. The fluid flow is of {F}orchheimer-type and is subject to a mixed mass and volumetric flux boundary condition. The governing equations are reduced to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Emine Celik , Luan Hoang , Thinh Kieu

In the paper, we study the plane Couette flow of a rarefied gas between two parallel infinite plates at $y=\pm L$ moving relative to each other with opposite velocities $(\pm \alpha L,0,0)$ along the $x$-direction. Assuming that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Tong Yang

Isothermal compressible two-phase flows in a capillary are modeled with and without phase transition in the presence of gravity, employing Darcy's law for the velocity field. It is shown that the resulting systems are thermodynamically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

The problem of two-phase flow in straight capillaries of polygonal cross section displays many of the dynamic characteristics of rapid interfacial motions associated with pore-scale displacements in porous media. Fluid inertia is known to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-03 Alexander Yelkhovsky , W. Val Pinczewski

Based on thermodynamic considerations we derive a set of equations relating the seepage velocities of the fluid components in immiscible and incompressible two-phase flow in porous media. They necessitate the introduction of a new velocity…

We consider a family of fractional porous media equations, recently studied by Caffarelli and V\'azquez. We show the construction of a weak solution as Wasserstein gradient flow of a square fractional Sobolev norm. Energy dissipation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Stefano Lisini , Edoardo Mainini , Antonio Segatti

Upscaling the effect of heterogeneities in porous media is crucial for macroscopic flow predictions, with widespread applications in energy and environmental settings. In this study, we derive expressions for the upscaled flow properties of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-06 GP Benham , MJ Bickle , JA Neufeld

We investigate a new diffuse-interface model that describes creeping two-phase flows (i.e., flows exhibiting a low Reynolds number), especially flows that permeate a porous medium. The system of equations consists of a Brinkman equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Pierluigi Colli , Patrik Knopf , Giulio Schimperna , Andrea Signori

A model of unsteady filtration (seepage) in a porous medium with capillary retention is considered. It leads to a free boundary problem for a generalized porous medium equation where the location of the boundary of the water mound is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Eugene A. Ingerman , Helen Shvets

An existence result is proved for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial conditions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

Darcy's law and the Brinkman equation are two main models used for creeping fluid flows inside moving permeable particles. For these two models, the time derivative and the nonlinear convective terms of fluid velocity are neglected in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Liang Wang , Lian-Ping Wang , Zhaoli Guo , Jianchun Mi

In this paper, a lattice Boltzmann (LB) model with double distribution functions is proposed for two-phase flow in porous media where one distribution function is used for pressure governed by the Poisson equation, and the other is applied…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Zhenhua Chai , Hong Liang , Rui Du , Baochang Shi

Gas bubbles immersed in a liquid and flowing through a large pressure gradient undergoes volumetric deformation in addition to possible deviatoric deformation. While the high density liquid phase can be assumed to be an incompressible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Prapanch Nair , Gaurav Tomar

We model multi-dimensional two-phase flows of incompressible fluids in porous media using generalized Forchheimer equations and the capillary pressure. Firstly, we find a family of steady state solutions whose saturation and pressure are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Luan T. Hoang , Akif Ibragimov , Thinh T. Kieu

We study immiscible two-phase flow of a compressible and an incompressible fluid inside a capillary tube of varying radius under steady-state conditions. The incompressible fluid is Newtonian and the compressible fluid is an inviscid ideal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-22 Hyejeong L. Cheon , Hursanay Fyhn , Alex Hansen , Øivind Wilhelmsen , Santanu Sinha

Gas injection in the context of the three-phase flow in porous media appears in applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery, aquifer remediation, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). In general, this technique suffers from a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Luis Fernando Lozano , Grigori Chapiro , Dan Marchesin

We study a one dimensional model for two-phase flows in heterogeneous media, in which the capillary pressure functions can be discontinuous with respect to space. We first give a model, leading to a system of degenerated non-linear…

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