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Title: Analytical and variational numerical methods for unstable miscible displacement flows in porous media

Journal Article · · Journal of Computational Physics

The miscible displacement of one fluid by another in a porous medium has received considerable attention in subsurface, environmental and petroleum engineering applications. When a fluid of higher mobility displaces another of lower mobility, unstable patterns – referred to as viscous fingering – may arise. Their physical and mathematical study has been the object of numerous investigations over the past century. In writing this paper the objective is to present a review of these contributions with particular emphasis on variational methods. These algorithms are tailored to real field applications thanks to their advanced features: handling of general complex geometries, robustness in the presence of rough tensor coefficients, low sensitivity to mesh orientation in advection dominated scenarios, and provable convergence with fully unstructured grids.

Research Organization:
Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); Army Research Office (ARO); ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012169; W911NF-13-1-0452; 10-014677
OSTI ID:
1533955
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1397794
Journal Information:
Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 335, Issue C; ISSN 0021-9991
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 28 works
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