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This work presents the Riemann solution for three-phase flow in porous media under the condition that oil viscosity exceeds that of water and gas. We classify all Riemann solution problems for scenarios where the left states $L$ lie along…
Motivated by the foam displacement in porous media with linear adsorption, we extended the existing framework for two-phase flow containing an active tracer described by a non-strictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws. We solved the…
A recently introduced two-phase flow model by Chun Shen is studied in this work. The model is derived to describe the dynamics of immersed water bubbles in liquid water as carrier. Several assumptions are made to obtain a reduced form of…
The injection and in-situ generation of foam in porous media successfully control gas mobility and improve the fluids' sweep efficiency inside porous media. Mathematical models describing this problem use two phases, foamed gas and fluid,…
A new OpenFOAM application to simulate multiphase flows in porous media is formulated and tested. The proposed solver combines the Eulerian multi-fluid formulation for a system of phase fractions with Darcy's law for flows through porous…
This report addresses the solution of Riemann problems for hyperbolic equations when the nonlinear characteristic fields loose their genuine nonlinearity. In this context, exact solvers for nonconvex 1D Riemann problems are developed. First…
The work investigates a model that combines a convection-diffusion-reaction equation for solute concentration with an unsteady Darcy-Brinkman equation for the flow field, including the Kortweg stress. Additionally, the flow field…
Flash evaporation, a liquid-to-gas phase transition phenomenon in real fluids, is prevalent in aerospace propulsion systems. To elucidate the physical mechanisms of such complex flows and provide theoretical benchmarks for Computational…
We study the displacement of three immiscible Stokes fluids with constant viscosities in a porous medium. The middle-layer fluid is contained in a bounded region. We give an analysis of the linear stability of this process. This stability…
Immiscible fluid displacement in porous media occurs in several natural and industrial processes. For example, during petroleum extraction from porous rock reservoirs, water is used to displace oil. In this paper, we investigate primary…
We develop a theory for the problem of high pressure air injection into deep reservoirs containing light oil. Under these conditions, the injected fluid (oxygen + inert components) is completely miscible with the oil in the reservoir.…
In this work, we investigate a model describing flow through porous media with permeability heterogeneity, combining an advection-reaction-diffusion equation for solute concentration with an unsteady Darcy-Brinkman equation with Korteweg…
We study a heuristic, core-scale model for the transport of polymer particles in a two phase (oil and water) porous medium. We are motivated by recent experimental observations which report increased oil recovery when polymers are injected…
Liquid-vapor flows with phase transitions have a wide range of applications. Isothermal two-phase flows described by a single set of isothermal Euler equations, where the mass transfer is modeled by a kinetic relation, have been…
Simulating the interaction of fluids with immersed moving solids is playing an important role for gaining a better quantitative understanding of how fluid dynamics is altered by the presence of obstacles and which forces are exerted on the…
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…
Polymer solutions are often injected in porous media for applications such as oil recovery and groundwater remediation. As the fluid navigates the tortuous pore space, elastic stresses build up, causing the flow to become unstable at…
The ghost fluid method allows a propagating interface to remain sharp during a numerical simulation. The solution of the Riemann problem at the interface provides proper information to determine interfacial fluxes as well as the velocity of…
The Riemann problem is one of the basic building blocks for numerical methods in computational fluid mechanics. Nonetheless, there are still open questions and gaps in theory and modelling for situations with complex thermodynamic behavior.…
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…