Growth activity during fingering in a porous Hele Shaw cell

Details Growth activity during fingering in a porous Hele Shaw cell Growth activity during fingering in a porous Hele Shaw cell

2003-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310204v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

11 pages 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.026301

We present in this paper an experimental study of the invasion activity during unstable drainage in a 2D random porous medium, when the (wetting) displaced fluid has a high viscosity with respect to that of the (non-wetting) displacing fluid, and for a range of almost two decades in capillary numbers corresponding to the transition between capillary and viscous fingering. We show that the invasion process takes place in an active zone within a characteristic screening length from the tip of the most advanced finger. The invasion probability density is found to only depend on the distance to the latter tip, and to be independent of the value for the capillary number Ca. The mass density along the flow direction is related analytically to the invasion probability density, and the scaling with respect to the capillary number is consistent with a power law. Other quantities characteristic of the displacement process, such as the speed of the most advanced finger tip or the characteristic finger width, are also consistent with power laws of the capillary number. The link between the growth probability and the pressure field is studied analytically and an expression for the pressure in the defending fluid along the cluster is derived. The measured pressure are then compared with the corresponding simulated pressure field using this expression for the boundary condition on the cluster.

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