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Analysis of Capillary-Viscous-Gravity Forces in Biopolymer Flooding with a Sensitivity Analysis on Polymer and Porous Medium Parameters

Hamidpour, E ; Sharif University of Technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1080/01932691.2013.858347
  3. Abstract:
  4. Gravity, viscous, and capillary are three main forces affecting flow characteristics in porous media. No analytical solution can be found to model the flow by considering all these forces. In this work, by considering all these forces, the polymer-flooding process is modeled by using a numerical simulation approach. For characterizing the polymer, the modified Blake-Kozeny model is chosen, which benefits consideration of the permeability reduction due to polymer adsorption on the rock surface
  5. Keywords:
  6. Numerical analysis ; Polymer flooding ; Enhanced recovery ; Floods ; Gravitation ; Porous materials ; Flow charac-teristics ; Numerical simulation approaches ; Permeability reduction ; Polymer adsorption ; Porous medium ; Rock surfaces ; Polymers
  7. Source: Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology ; Vol. 35, issue. 12 , Aug , 2014 , p. 1764-1773
  8. URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01932691.2013.858347