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In this study, we investigate the appeared complexity of two-phase flow (air-water) in a heterogeneous soil where the supposed porous media is non-deformable media which is under the time-dependent gas pressure. After obtaining of governing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-05-20 Hamed . O. Ghaffari

This article provides a derivation of the averaged equations governing the motion of dispersed two-phase flows with interfacial transport. We begin by revisiting the two-fluid formulation, as well as the distributional form of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-29 Nicolas Fintzi , Jean-Lou Pierson

Based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics we derive a set of general equations relating the partial volumetric flow rates to each other and to the total volumetric flow rate in immiscible two-phase flow in porous media. These equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-20 Alex Hansen , Santanu Sinha , Dick Bedeaux , Signe Kjelstrup , Isha Savani , Morten Vassvik

In this paper we reconsider the classical nonlinear diffusivity equation of real gas in an heterogenous porous medium in light of the recent studies about the generalized fractional equation of conservation of mass. We first recall the…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 A. Caserta , R. Garra , E. Salusti

The flow of incompressible fluid in highly permeable porous media in vorticity - velocity - Bernoulli pressure form leads to a double saddle-point problem in the Navier--Stokes--Brinkman--Forchheimer equations. The paper establishes, for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Santiago Badia , Carsten Carstensen , Alberto F. Martin , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Segundo Villa-Fuentes

The formulation of a model for the evolution of the flow of a solid-liquid mixture (coal-water) in a horizontal pipeline with partial phase separation is the aim of this work. Problems of instabilities due to complex eigenvalues, observed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-14 Alessandro Speranza

We introduce in this contribution the notion of partial Riemann problem. Recall that the Riemann problem describes a shock tube interaction between two given states ; the partial Riemann problem is a generalization of the previous concept…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-17 François Dubois

In the present paper, a continuum model is introduced for fluid flow in a deformable porous medium, where the fluid may undergo phase transitions. Typically, such problems arise in modeling liquid-solid phase transformations in groundwater…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Pavel Krejci , Elisabetta Rocca , Juergen Sprekels

In Part II of this study we consider two cases of three-phase coexistence. First, the capped capillary may allow for vapour, drop-like, and slab-like phases to coexist at the same values of temperature and chemical potential. Second, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-23 P. Yatsyshin , N. Savva , S. Kalliadasis

The basic stationary buoyant flow in a vertical annular porous passage induced by a boundary temperature difference is investigated. The vertical cylindrical boundaries are considered both isothermal and permeable to external fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-03 A. Barletta , M. Celli , D. A. S. Rees

We consider an immiscible two-phase flow in a heterogeneous one-dimensional porous medium. We suppose particularly that the capillary pressure field is discontinuous with respect to the space variable. The dependence of the capillary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-06 Clément Cancès

Full-physics modeling of multiphase flow in porous media, e.g., for carbon storage and groundwater management, requires the nonlinear coupling of various physical processes. Industry standard nonlinear solvers, typically of Newton-type, are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Peter von Schultzendorff , Jakub Wiktor Both , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Tor Harald Sandve

The Rayleigh--Taylor instability of two immiscible fluids in the limit of small Atwood numbers is studied by means of a phase-field description. In this method the sharp fluid interface is replaced by a thin, yet finite, transition layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio Celani , Andrea Mazzino , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Lara Vozella

The propagation of nonlinear and dispersive waves in various materials can be described by the well-known Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation, which is a (2+1)-dimensional partial differential equation. In this paper, we show that the KP…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Harold Berjamin , Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

The alternative approach to the displacement of gas/liquid equilibrium is developed on the basis of the Clapeyron equation. The phase transition in the system with well-established properties is taken as a reference process to search for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 Vladimir Kh. Dobruskin

Physical experiments show that a capillary water jet is exponentially unstable under long wave perturbations, while remaining stable under short wave perturbations. Measurements indicate that the exponential growth rate in the long wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Chengyang Shao , Haocheng Yang

Capillary energy barriers have important consequences for immiscible fluid flow in porous media. We derive time-and-space averaging theory to account for non-equilibrium behavior and understand the role of athermal capillary fluctuations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 James E. McClure , Steffen Berg , Ryan T. Armstrong

In this paper, we consider a non-local (in time) two-phase flow model. The non-locality is introduced through the wettability alteration induced dynamic capillary pressure function. We present a monotone fixed-point iterative linearization…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Abay M. Kassa , Kundan Kumar , Sarah E. Gasda , Florin A. Radu

Both the porous medium equation and the system of isentropic Euler equations can be considered as steepest descents on suitable manifolds of probability measures in the framework of optimal transport theory. By discretizing these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Michael Westdickenberg , Jon Wilkening

The classical irrotational capillary-gravity water wave problem described by the Euler equations with a nonlinear free surface boundary condition over a flat bed is considered. A modified flow force has been defined and a new formulation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Biswajit Basu , Calin Iulian Martin