High resolution viscous fingering simulation in miscible displacement using a p-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method with algebraic multigrid preconditioner

Becker, G.; Siefert, Christopher; Tuminaro, Raymond S.; Sun, Hongwei; Valiveti, D. M.; Mohan, A.; Yin, Jichao; Huang, Hao

doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2018.07.003

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“…Becker also conducted a numerical study using the Galerkin method [ 75 ]. The purpose was to improve the numerical techniques applied to the Galerkin method to speed up simulations of MVF at a large scale in 2D and 3D .…”

Section: Modeling Of Vf At the Microscale: 2d And 3d Simulationsmentioning

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Experimental and computational advances on the study of Viscous Fingering: An umbrella review

Pinilla

Asuaje²,

Ratkovich

2021

Heliyon

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Section: Modeling Of Vf At the Microscale: 2d And 3d Simulationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental and computational advances on the study of Viscous Fingering: An umbrella review

Pinilla

Asuaje²,

Ratkovich

2021

Heliyon

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“…The last approach used to predict the unstable displacement dynamics is based on the conservation equations of fluid flow, like Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes. With this approach, several researchers have conducted numerical studies either at the pore-scale [ 28 – 38 ] or the continuum scale [ 39 – 52 ]. The difference between them is that the simulation at the pore-scale considers the porous geometry of the system.…”

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“…Instead, a value of porosity and permeability is used at each grid cell, similarly to the reservoir codes. Nevertheless, most of the studies using these approaches have been restricted to 2D systems, with few exceptions addressing the 3D dynamics of unstable displacements [ 31 , 38 , 39 , 45 , 51 , 52 ]. Although these models’ advantages are the possibility of explicitly simulating VF, either at the pore and continuum scale for miscible and immiscible displacements, the major drawback is that they have been limited to small length scales and 2D systems.…”

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CFD study of the water production in mature heavy oil fields with horizontal wells

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Asuaje²,

Pantoja

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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Excessive water production in mature heavy oil fields causes incremental costs, energy consumption, and inefficiency. Understanding multiphase flows near the wellbore is an alternative to improve production efficiency. Therefore, this study conducts a series of numerical experiments based on the full set of the Navier-Stokes equations in 3D to simulate multiphase flows in porous media for heavy oil production horizontal wells. The solution given by this advanced mathematical formulation led to the description of the movement of the fluids near the wellbore with unprecedented detail. A sensitivity analysis was conducted on different rock and fluid properties such as permeability and oil viscosity, assuming homogeneous porous media. The influence of these parameters on the prediction of the breakthrough time, aquifer movement, and the severity of water production was noticed. Finally, the numerical model was verified against field data using two approaches. The first one was conducting a history match assuming homogeneous rock properties. In contrast, the second one used heterogeneous rock properties measured from well logging, achieving a lower deviation than field data, about 20%. The homogeneous numerical experiments showed that the breakthrough occurs at the heel with a subsequent crestation along the horizontal well. Moreover, at adverse mobility ratios, excessive water production tends to happen in water connings at the heel with an inflow area less than 1% of the total inflow area of the completion liner. Different aquifer movement dynamics were found for the heterogeneous case, like the breakthrough through multiple locations along the horizontal well. Finally, critical hydraulic data in the well, such as the pressure and velocity profiles, were obtained, which could be used to improve production efficiency. The numerical model presented in this study is proposed as an alternative to conducting subsurface modeling and well designs.

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Modelling of 3D viscous fingering: Influence of the mesh on coreflood experiments

Pinilla

Ramírez

Asuaje³

et al. 2021

Fuel

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High resolution viscous fingering simulation in miscible displacement using a p-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin method with algebraic multigrid preconditioner

Cited by 5 publications

References 52 publications

Experimental and computational advances on the study of Viscous Fingering: An umbrella review

Experimental and computational advances on the study of Viscous Fingering: An umbrella review

CFD study of the water production in mature heavy oil fields with horizontal wells

Modelling of 3D viscous fingering: Influence of the mesh on coreflood experiments

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