Microgravity Investigation of Seepage Flows in Porous Media

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 31 - Trang 629-639 - 2019
N. N. Smirnov1,2, V. F. Nikitin1,2, E. I. Skryleva1,2
1Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
2Moscow M. V. Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia

Tóm tắt

The capillary driven seepage in porous media under microgravity conditions is investigated. Experiments on the flow of a liquid in an inhomogeneous artificial porous medium are presented. A non-stationary mathematical model of the flow of a multiphase fluid in a sample of a porous medium is described. The experimental data are compared with the results of a three-dimensional numerical simulation of the multiphase seepage process. The behavior of the imbibition front when passing through a boundary of medias with different permeability is investigated.

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