Local statistics of immiscible and incompressible two-phase flow in porous media

Hursanay Fyhn, Santanu Sinha and Alex Hansen

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2023, vol. 616, issue C

Abstract: We consider immiscible and incompressible two-phase flow in porous media under steady-state conditions using a dynamic pore network model. We focus on the fluctuations in a Representative Elementary Area (REA), with the aim to demonstrate that the statistical distributions of the volumetric flow rate and the saturation within the REA become independent of the size of the entire model when the model is large enough. This independence is a necessary condition for developing a local statistical theory for the flow, which in turn opens for the possibility to formulate a description at scales large enough for the typical pore size to be negligible using differential equations.

Keywords: Porous media; Statistical mechanics; Network model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2023.128626

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