Simulation of two-phase flow by injecting water and surfactant into porous media containing oil and investigation of trapped oil areas

Akhlaghi Amiri HA, Hamouda AA (2013) Evaluation of level set and phase field methods in modeling two phase flow with viscosity contrast through dual permeability porous medium. Int J Multiph Flow 52:22–34 Akhlaghi Amiri HA, Hamouda AA (2014) Pore-scale modeling of non-isothermal two phase flow in 2D porous media: influences of viscosity, capillarity, wettability and heterogeneity. Int J Multiph Flow 61:14–27 Badalassi VE, Cenicerob HD, Banerjee S (2003) Computation of multiphase systems with phase field models. J Comput Phys 190:371–397 Blunt MJ (2001) Flow in porous media, pore-network models and multiphase flow. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 6:197–207 Bogdanov I, Jardel S, Turki A, Kamp A (2010) Pore scale phase field model of two-phase flow in porous medium. In: Annual COMSOL Conference, Paris, France Chegenizadeh N, Saeedi A (2017) Most common surfactants employed in chemical enhanced oil recovery. Department of Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, 6151 Kensington 3(2): 197–211 Chiu PH, Lin YT (2011) A conservative phase field method for solving incompressible two-phase flows. J Comput Phys 230:185–204 Craig FF (1971) The reservoir engineering aspects of water flooding, vol 2. American Institute of Minerals, Metallurgy and Petroleum Engineers Inc, New York, p 202e13 Feng JJ, Liu C, Shen J, Yue P (2005) An energetic variational formulation with phase field methods for interfacial dynamics of complex fluids: advantages and challenges. In: Maria-Carme T, Eugene M (eds) Modeling of soft matter, the IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications, vol 141. Springer, New York, pp 1–26 Gonzalez RC, Woods RE (2002) Digital image processing, 3rd edn. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, pp 711–759 Gunde AC, Bera B, Mitra SK (2010) Investigation of water and CO2 (carbon dioxide) flooding using micro-CT (micro-computed tomography) images of Berea sandstone core using finite element simulations. Energy 35:5209–5216 Hadia N, Chaudhury L, Mitra SK, Vinjamur M, Singh R (2007) Experimental investigation of horizontal wells in water flooding. J Pet Sci Eng 56:303e10 Hara K, Kuwabara H, Kajimoto O, Bhattacharyya K (1999) Effect of pressure on the critical micelle concentration of neutral surfactant using fluorescence probe method. J Photochem Photobiol A 124:159–162 Hatiboglu CH, Babadagli T (2007) Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of solvent diffusion into oil saturated porous media. Phys Rev 76:066309 Hirt CW, Nichols BD (1981) Volume of fluid (VOF) method for the dynamics of free boundaries. J Comput Phys 39:201–225 http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Oil/primer03.html Jacqmin D (1999) Calculation of two-phase Navier-Stokes flows using phase field modeling. J Comput Phys 155:96–127 Jarvet J, Danielsson J, Damberg P, Oleszczuk M, Gräslund A (2007) Positioning of the Alzheimer Aβ(1–40) peptide in SDS micelles using NMR and paramagnetic probes. J Biomol NMR 39(1):63–72 Kathel P, Mohanty KK (2013) EOR in tight oil reservoirs through wettability alteration. SPE annual technical conference and exhibition, Society of Petroleum Engineers, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Kushner LM, Duncan BC, Hoffman JI (1952) A viscometric study of the micelles of sodium dodecyl sulfate in dilute solutions. J Res Natl Bur Stand 49(2):85 Liu C, Shen J (2003) A phase field model for the mixture of two incompressible fluids and its approximation by a Fourier-spectral method. Phys D 179:211–228 Maaref S, Rokhforouz MR, Ayatollahi S (2017) Numerical investigation of two phase flow in micromodel porous media: effects of wettability, heterogeneity, and viscosity. Can J Chem Eng 95:1213–1223 Martys N, Cieplak M, Robbins M (1991) Critical phenomena in fluid invasion of porous media. Phys Rev Lett 66:1058–1061 Mukerjee P, Mysels K (1972) Critical micelle concentrations of aqueous surfactant systems. Natl Bur Stand 36:227 Panton RL (2004) Incompressible flow, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York Qi Z, Wang Y, Xu X (2014) Effects of interfacial tension reduction and wettability alteration on oil recovery by surfactant imbibition. Adv Mater Res 868:664–668 Ramstad T, Oren P, Bakke S (2009) Simulation of two-phase flow in reservoir rocks using a lattice Boltzmann method. Soc Pet Eng J 15:917–927 Rostami P (2019) The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil recovery: micromodel experimental studies and CFD simulation Santhosh V, Mitra SK, Vinjamur M (2008) Flow visualization of waterflooding with horizontal and vertical wells. Pet Sci Technol 26(15):1835–1851 Schramm LL (2000) Surfactants: fundamentals and applications in the petroleum industry, 621 pages Smereka P, Sethian JA (2003) Level set methods for fluid interfaces. Annu Rev Fluid Mech 35:341–372 Succi S (2001) The lattice boltzmann equation for fluid dynamics and beyond. Clarendon Press, Oxford Sussman M, Almgren AS, Bell JB, Colella P, Howell LH, Welcome ML (1999) An adaptive level set approach for incompressible two-phase flows. J Comput Phys 148:81–124 Tadros TF (2005) Applied surfactants principles and applications. Wiley, New York, pp 39–51 Unverdi SO, Tryggvason G (1992) A front tracking method for viscous, incompressible, multiphase flows. J Comput Phys 100:25–37 Valvatne PH, Blunt MJ (2004) Predictive pore-scale modeling of two-phase flow in mixed wet media. Water Resour Res 40:W07406 Yue P, Feng JJ, Liu C, Shen J (2004) A diffuse interface method for simulating two-phase flows of complex fluids. J Fluid Mech 515:293–317 Zhou C, Yue P, Feng JJ, Ollivier-Gooch CF, Hu HH (2010) 3D phase-field simulations of interfacial dynamics in Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids. J Comput Phys 229:498–511