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This paper reviews recent research results in two-phase flow in porous media obtained by the authors.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 Eyvind Aker , Alex Hansen , Knut Jorgen Maloy

We study average flow properties in porous media using a two-dimensional network simulator. It models the dynamics of two-phase immiscible bulk flow where film flow can be neglected. The boundary conditions are biperiodic which provide a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Arendt Knudsen , Alex Hansen

In this work we study the evolution of the free boundary between two different fluids in a porous medium where the permeability is a two dimensional step function. The medium can fill the whole plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ or a bounded strip…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Luigi Berselli , Diego Cordoba , Rafael Granero-Belinchon

We prove the existence of infinitely many mixing solutions for the Muskat problem in the fully unstable regime displaying a linearly degraded macroscopic behaviour inside the mixing zone. In fact, we estimate the volume proportion of each…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Ángel Castro , Daniel Faraco , Francisco Mengual

We study a system of equations governing liquid and gas flow in porous media. The gas phase is homogeneous while the liquid phase is composed of a liquid component and dissolved gas component. It is assumed that the gas component is weakly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Mladen Jurak , Ivana Radisic , Ana Zgaljic Keko

Multiphase flow in porous media occurs in several disciplines including petroleum reservoir engineering, petroleum systems' analysis, and CO$_2$ sequestration. While simulations often use a fully implicit discretization to increase the time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-12 Daniel A. Cogswell , Michael L. Szulczewski

We describe the competitive motion of (N + 1) incompressible immiscible phases within a porous medium as the gradient flow of a singular energy in the space of non-negative measures with prescribed mass endowed with some tensorial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Clément Cancès , Thomas Gallouët , Leonard Monsaingeon

This paper shows finite time singularity formation for the Muskat problem in a stable regime. The framework we found is with a dry region, where the density and the viscosity are set equal to $0$ (the gradient of the pressure is equal to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Angel Castro , Diego Cordoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo

We consider a macroscopic model for the growth of living tissues incorporating pressure-driven dispersal and pressure-modulated proliferation. Assuming a power-law relation between the mechanical pressure and the cell density, the model can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Tomasz Dębiec , Piotr Gwiazda , Błażej Miasojedow , Zuzanna Szymańska

The Muskat problem models the dynamics of the interface between two incompressible immiscible fluids with different constant densities. In this work we prove three results. First we prove an $L^2(\R)$ maximum principle, in the form of a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Peter Constantin , Diego Cordoba , Francisco Gancedo , Robert M. Strain

The initial-boundary value problem of the vorticity equation has been solved numerically by an iterative method. A variety of initial vorticity distributions is specified. All of them can be described by simple mathematical functions: there…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-23 F. Lam

A fundamental variable characterizing immiscible two-phase flow in porous media is the wetting saturation, which is the ratio between the pore volume filled with wetting fluid and the total pore volume. More generally, this variable comes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-15 Håkon Pedersen , Alex Hansen

In this work, we derive asymptotic interface models for an elastic Muskat free boundary problem describing Darcy flow beneath an elastic membrane. In a weakly nonlinear regime of small interface steepness, we obtain nonlocal evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Diego Alonso-Orán , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

In this paper we consider the evolution of two fluid phases in a porous medium. The fluids are separated from each other and also the wetting phase from air by interfaces which evolve in time. We reduce the problem to an abstract evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-17 Joachim Escher , Anca-Voichita Matioc , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

An open-sourced multiphase Darcy-Brinkman approach is proposed to simulate two-phase flow in hybrid systems containing both solid-free regions and porous matrices. This micro-continuum model is rooted in elementary physics and volume…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Francisco J. Carrillo , Ian C. Bourg , Cyprien Soulaine

In this paper, we establish the global well-posedness of the one-phase Muskat problem with surface tension for small initial data. This problem describes the motion of the interface separating a wet region from a dry region within a porous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Hongjie Dong , Hyunwoo Kwon

The central problem in the physics of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media is to find a proper description of the flow at scales large enough so that the medium may be regarded as a continuum: the scale-up problem. So far, the only…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Alex Hansen , Santanu Sinha

Two-phase flow systems in porous media have complex dynamics. It is well established that a wide range of system parameters like viscosities and porosity as well as flow parameters such as pressure gradient and fluid saturation have strong…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Arendt Knudsen , Alex Hansen

We first prove local-in-time well-posedness for the Muskat problem, modeling fluid flow in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous porous media. The permeability of the porous medium is described by a step function, with a jump discontinuity across…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Steve Shkoller

The flow of incompressible fluids through porous media plays a crucial role in many technological applications such as enhanced oil recovery and geological carbon-dioxide sequestration. The flow within numerous natural and synthetic porous…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-23 S. H. S. Joodat , K. B. Nakshatrala , R. Ballarini