Modeling of temperature distribution and oil displacement during thermal recovery in porous media: A critical review

Modeling the process of oil displacement by a heat carrier considering the capillary effect

“…Studying the interaction among several fluids and extracted oil raises a question regarding the impact of capillary forces on the bottom-hole zone of wells. In particular, paper [11] attempted to form a basis for the further study into the flow of a fluid in the process of thermal displacement. In addition, article [12] has in more detail investigated the three-phase non-isothermal oil filtering for the case of vapor-gravity drainage.…”

“…By employing the constructed velocity speed υ i,j , the fields of saturation s i,j and temperature , i j T from the preceding iterative step (taking into consideration the boundary conditions), we find the distribution of saturation , i j s in a bed at a given point in time. According to (11) and using (12), we calculate a temperature field , i j T , and recalculate then the field of velocity and potential.…”

Evaluating the Effect of Oil-Displacing Agents Using Computer Graphics and Visualization Glass Plate Model Experiments

“…For the mathematical model evaluation experiments, although the oil displacement process can be observed, it is a simulation process calculated based on geological characteristics and oil displacement agent parameters using discovered laws. However, the seepage laws of many low-permeability pores have not been fully clarified, making it difficult to simulate the real underground fluid flow process (Artun and Kulga, 2020;Liu et al, 2020a;Miah et al, 2018;Sabet et al, 2020;Shi et al, 2019;Wu et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2020a). At the same time, the evaluation results obtained by this method are too modular and difficult to verify.…”

Temperature profiles due to continuous hot water injection into homogeneous fluid-saturated porous media through a line source

“…Physically, this is a way of heating the porous matrix and the fluids therein. The problem is ubiquitous in technological areas like heavy and extra-heavy oil recovery [1][2][3][4][5][6] and for the production and storage of energy in geothermal systems [7][8][9][10][11][12], among others.…”