Tao Wang^1,2, Haiyang Yu^1,*, Jie Gao², Fei Wang², Xinlong Zhang^3,*, Hao Yang², Guirong Di², Pengrun Wang²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.21, No.5, pp. 1191-1200, 2025, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2025.058865 - 30 May 2025

Abstract Oilfields worldwide are increasingly grappling with challenges such as early water breakthrough and high water production, yet direct, targeted solutions remain elusive. In recent years, chemical flooding techniques designed for tertiary oil recovery have garnered significant attention, with microgel flooding emerging as a particularly prominent area of research. Despite its promise, the complex mechanisms underlying microgel flooding have been rarely investigated numerically. This study aims to address these gaps by characterizing the distribution of microgel concentration and viscosity within different pore structures. To enhance the accuracy of these characterizations, the viscosity of microgels is adjusted More >

Shasha Feng^*, Yi Liao, Weixin Liu, Jianwen Dai, Mingying Xie, Li Li

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.20, No.2, pp. 275-292, 2024, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2023.041825 - 14 December 2023

Abstract Asphaltene deposition is a significant problem during gas injection processes, as it can block the porous medium, the wellbore, and the involved facilities, significantly impacting reservoir productivity and ultimate oil recovery. Only a few studies have investigated the numerical modeling of this potential effect in porous media. This study focuses on asphaltene deposition due to natural gas and CO₂ injection. Predictions of the effect of gas injection on asphaltene deposition behavior have been made using a 3D numerical simulation model. The results indicate that the injection of natural gas exacerbates asphaltene deposition, leading to a significant… More > Graphic Abstract

Shuyu Sun^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.27, No.2, pp. 1-2, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09671

Abstract Two or multiple phases commonly occur as fluid mixture in petroleum industry, where oil, gas and water are often produced and transported together. As a result, petroleum reservoir engineers spent great efforts in the development and production of oil and gas reservoirs by conducting and interpolating the simulation of multiphase flows in porous geological formation. Meanwhile, environmental scientists use subsurface flow and transport models to investigate and compare for example various schemes to inject and store CO2 in subsurface geological formations, such as depleted reservoirs and deep saline aquifers. In this work, we first present… More >

A.B. Tatomir^1,2, A.Szymkiewicz³, H. Class¹, R. Helmig¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 81-112, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.077.081

Abstract We present a two phase flow conceptual model, the corresponding simulator (2pMINC) and a workflow for large-scale fractured reservoirs, based on a continuum fracture approach which uses the multiple interacting continua (MINC) method complemented with an improved upscaling technique. The complex transient behavior of the flow processes in fractured porous media is captured by subgridding the coarse blocks in nested volume elements which have effective properties calculated from the detailed representation of the fracture system. In this way, we keep a physically based approach, preserve the accuracy of the model, avoid the common use of… More >