Physics
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Jan 2002
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IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,
Physics
Scientific paper
problems of terrestrial engineering and technology. Surface tension affected flows in porous media could be much better understood in microgravity studies eliminating the masking effects of gravity. Saffman-Taylor instability of the interface could bring to formation and growth of "fingers" of gas penetrating the bulk fluid. The growth of fingers and their further coalescence could not be described by the linear analysis. Growth of fingers causes irregularity of the mixing zone. The tangential velocity difference on the interface separating fluids of different densities and viscousities could bring to a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability resulting in "diffusion of fingers" partial regularization of the displacement mixing zone. Thus combination of the two effects would govern the flow in the displacement process. fracture under a pressure differential displacing the high viscosity residual fracturing fluid. There are inherent instability and scalability problems associated with viscous fingering that play a key role in the cleanup procedure. Entrapment of residual fracturing fluid by the gas flow lowers down the quality of a fracture treatment leaving most of fluid in the hydraulic fracture thus decreasing the production rate. The gravity effects could play essential role in vertical hydraulic fractures as the problem is scale dependent. displacement of viscous fluid by a less viscous one in a two-dimensional channel with vertical breaks, and to determine characteristic size of entrapment zones. Extensive direct numerical simulations allow to investigate the sensitivity of the displacement process to variation of values of the main governing parameters. were found for the two limiting cases: infinitely wide cell, and narrow cell with an infinitely small gap between the finger and the side walls. governing parameters. The obtained solutions allowed to explain the physical meaning of the exiting empirical criteria for the beginning of viscous fingering and the growth of a number of fingers in the cell, and allowed us to make some additional suggestions for the cleanup procedure. depending on the resident fluid properties, for which the displacement still remains stable. viscous one were carried out. Validation of the code was performed by comparing the results of model problems simulations with the existing solutions published in literature. Being in a good agreement with the previously obtained results, nevertheless, the developed code is an advanced one. While the existing codes could operate with linear equations and regular geometry and initial disturbances only, the new code permits taking into account non-linear effects as well. characterizing the quality of displacement. The functional dependence of the dimensionless criteria on the values of governing parameters needs further investigations. Services, an international company in the oil and gas industry.
Ivashnyov O. E.
Nikitin V. F.
Smirnov Nikolai
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