Dynamics of the Water–Oil Front for Two-Phase, Immiscible Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media. 1 – Stratified Media

Transport in Porous Media - Tập 56 - Trang 283-303 - 2004
Vincent Artus1, Benoît Nœtinger1, Ludovic Ricard1
1Division Ingénierie des Réservoirs, Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil Malmaison, France

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We study the evolution of the water–oil front for two-phase, immiscible flow in heterogeneous porous media. Our analysis takes into account the viscous coupling between the pressure field and the saturation map. Although most of previously published stochastic homogenization approaches for upscaling two-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media neglect this viscous coupling, we show that it plays a crucial role on the dynamics of the front. In particular, when the mobility ratio is favorable, the viscous coupling induces a transverse flux that stabilizes the water–oil front, which follows a stationary behavior, at least in a statistical sense. Calculations are based on a double perturbation expansion of equations at first order: the local velocity fluctuation is defined as the sum of a viscous term related to perturbations of the saturation map, on one hand, plus the perturbation induced by the heterogeneity of the permeability field with a base-state saturation map, on the other hand. In this first paper, we focus on flows in stratified reservoirs, with stratification parallel to the mean flow. Our results allow to predict the evolution of large Fourier mode of the front, and the emergence of a stationary front, for favorable mobility ratios. Numerical experiments confirm our predictions. Our approach is applied to downscaling. Extension of our theory to isotropic media is presented in the companion paper.

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Transport in Porous Media

Tập 56

283-303

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