Influence of pore-scale disorder on viscous fingering during drainage

Details Influence of pore-scale disorder on viscous fingering during drainage Influence of pore-scale disorder on viscous fingering during drainage

2005-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0501047v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys Rev Letters

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2005-10136-9

We study viscous fingering during drainage experiments in linear Hele-Shaw cells filled with a random porous medium. The central zone of the cell is found to be statistically more occupied than the average, and to have a lateral width of 40% of the system width, irrespectively of the capillary number $Ca$. A crossover length $w_f \propto Ca^{-1}$ separates lower scales where the invader's fractal dimension $D\simeq1.83$ is identical to capillary fingering, and larger scales where the dimension is found to be $D\simeq1.53$. The lateral width and the large scale dimension are lower than the results for Diffusion Limited Aggregation, but can be explained in terms of Dielectric Breakdown Model. Indeed, we show that when averaging over the quenched disorder in capillary thresholds, an effective law $v\propto (\nabla P)^2$ relates the average interface growth rate and the local pressure gradient.

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