Yonggang Duan1, Ting Lu1, Mingqiang Wei1, Boming Yu2, Zhelun Zhang1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.109-110, No.6, pp. 481-504, 2015, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2015.109.481
Abstract Analysis of Buckley-Leverett solution in fractal porous medium does prediction of water saturation profile a favor. On the approximation that porous medium consists of a bundle of tortuous capillaries, a physical conceptual Buckley- Leverett model of transient two-phase flow in fractal porous medium is developed based on the fractal characteristics of pore size distribution. The relationship between water saturation and distance is presented according to Buckley-Leverett solution, and the proposed Buckley-Leverett expression is the function of fractal structural parameters (such as pore fractal dimension, tortuosity fractal dimension, maximum and minimum diameters of capillaries) and fluid properties (such as viscosity, contact… More >