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- Title
MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF A TWO-PHASE FLOW IN AN UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA.
- Authors
Peng XU; Ming-Zhou YU; Shu-Xia QIU; Bo-Ming YU
- Abstract
Relative permeability is a significant transport property which describes the simultaneous flow of immiscible fluids in porous media. A pore-scale physical model is developed for the two-phase immiscible flow in an unsaturated porous media according to the statistically fractal scaling laws of natural porous media, and a predictive calculation of two-phase relative permeability is presented by Monte Carlo simulation. The tortuosity is introduced to characterize the highly irregular and convoluted property of capillary pathways for fluid flow through a porous medium. The computed relative permeabilities are compared with empirical formulas and experimental measurements to validate the current model. The effect of fractal dimensions and saturation on the relative permeabilities is also discussed.
- Subjects
POROUS materials; MONTE Carlo method; PERMEABILITY; FRACTALS; TORTUOSITY
- Publication
Thermal Science, 2012, Vol 16, Issue 5, p1382
- ISSN
0354-9836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2298/TSCI1205382X