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Chinese Physics, 2002, Vol. 11(4): 358-365    DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/11/4/309
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Two-phase flow in correlated pore-throat random porous media

Tian Ju-Ping (田巨平)a, Yao Kai-Lun (姚凯伦)b 
a  Department of Physics, Wuhan Institute of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430073, China; b  Department of Physics Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; CCAST (World Laboratory), Beijing 100080, Chinab  International Center for Material Physics, Chinese Academy Science, Shenyang 110015, China
Abstract  We have constructed a porous media model in which there are percolation clusters with varying percolation probability P and correlated site-bonds. Taking into account both the pore and the throat geometry, the viscous fingering (VF) in porous media has been investigated by using the standard over-relaxed Gauss-Seidel scheme. The simulation results show that the VF structure varies with the correlation parameter $\varepsilon$, the viscosity ratio M and the percolation probability P. The smaller the correlation parameter $\varepsilon$, the greater the deviation of the normalized size distribution of the invaded throat Ninv(r) from the truncated Rayleigh distribution. For a larger viscosity ratio M, the VF pattern looks like a diffusion-limited-aggregation structure in percolation clusters. The fractal dimension D increases with the increase of the percolation probability P and the correlation parameter ε. The velocity distribution $f(\alpha)$ of VF in percolation clusters is of a parabola-like curve. The tail of the distribution (large $\alpha$) is longer for a larger correlation parameter $\varepsilon$. For a smaller $\varepsilon$, the distribution is very sharp. The sweep efficiency E decreases along with the decrease of the correlation parameter $\varepsilon$ and the increase of the network size Lnz. E has a minimum as Lnz increases up to the maximum no matter what the values of P, M and $\varepsilon$. The ELnz curve has a frozen zone and an active zone. The geometry and the topology of the porous media have strong effects on the displacement processes and the structure of VF.
Keywords:  correlation parameter      fractal dimension      sweep efficiency      scaling function  
Received:  10 June 2001      Revised:  09 December 2001      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  47.56.+r (Flows through porous media)  
  66.20.+d  
  45.70.Qj (Pattern formation)  
  47.53.+n (Fractals in fluid dynamics)  
  47.10.+g  
Fund: Project supported by the Foundation of the Hubei Provincial Education Department, China (Grant No 2000B25002).

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Tian Ju-Ping (田巨平), Yao Kai-Lun (姚凯伦) Two-phase flow in correlated pore-throat random porous media 2002 Chinese Physics 11 358

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