Dispersion of imbibition fronts

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2002-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212472v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages, 5 figures; submitted to Europhysics Letters

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2003-00380-5

We have studied the dispersive behaviour of imbibition fronts in a porous medium by X-ray tomography. Injection velocities were varied and the porous medium was initially prewetted or not. At low velocity in the prewetted medium, the imbibition profiles are found to be distinctly hyperdispersive. The profiles are anomalously extended when compared to tracer fronts exhibiting conventional (Gaussian) dispersion. We observe a strong velocity dependence of the exponent characterizing the divergence of the dispersion coefficient for low wetting-fluid saturation. Hyperdispersion is absent at high imbibition velocities or when the medium is not prewetted.

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