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Experimental and Numerical Study of Displacements of Multiphasic Flows in Porous Media


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/ireme.v12i12.15564

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The aim of this article is to present and to apply the experimental study of samples taken from the reservoir (petrophysical, static, and dynamic analysis) that presents the immiscible displacement of multiphase flow in porous media and to obtain an optimal yield in the exploitation of the reservoirs. The effect of capillary phenomena, which is generally neglected in multiphase flow studies, has been well taken into account. The numerical study consists in carrying out a reduced physical model (aquifer), assimilated to a stack of parallel layers, of constant thickness and of different characteristics, initially saturated with the pollutant. The injection of the aqueous phase through an injector well allows to push the pollutant to the recovery well. The mesh chosen to discretize the medium is a three-dimensional Cartesian and the finite difference scheme used is Total Variation Decreasing. The objective is to see the influence of the injection of the aqueous phase on the displacement of pollutant, the determination of the saturation fields of the fluid phases and to reproduce by simulation, certain physical phenomena frequently met in the reality and to identify the parameters that govern them.
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Porous Media; Flow; Experiments; Numerical Simulations; Displacement

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