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Beeson-Jones, Timothy. "Controlling viscous fingering." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275358.
Full textRees, S. "Stochastic computer simulations of viscous fingering." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235262.
Full textChen, Falin. "Thermal and fingering convection in superposed fluid and porous layers." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184774.
Full textZhang, Hao-Ran. "Numerical modelling of viscous fingering and upscaling of fluid flow porcesses in porous media." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1352.
Full textJackson, Samuel J. "A numerical study on the viscous fingering instability of immiscible displacement in Hele-Shaw cells." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40716/.
Full textMatioc, Bogdan-Vasile [Verfasser]. "Viscous Fingering in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics via Bifurcation : A Functional Analytic Approach / Bogdan-Vasile Matioc." Saarbrücken : Suedwestdeutscher Verlag fuer Hochschulschriften, 2010. http://www.vdm-verlag.de.
Full textZhang, Fengshou. "Pattern formation in fluid injection into dense granular media." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43716.
Full textD'Hernoncourt, Jessica. "Influence of thermal effects and electric fields on fingering of chemical fronts: a theoretical study." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210607.
Full textIn this context our work aims to understand theoretically in which way a chemical reaction can induce and influence such instabilities in a fluid initially at rest.
To understand the dynamics resulting from the coupling between chemical reactions and hydrodynamical instabilities we use chemical fronts as model systems. These fronts result from the coupling between autocatalytical chemical reactions and diffusion and they allow to create a self-organized interface between the products and the reactants. As during a chemical reaction the density may vary due to solutal and thermal effects, the products and the reactants can have different densities which may trigger convection movements leading to the destabilization of the fronts.
We have in particular studied the influence of the exothermicity of the reaction on the fingering of chemical fronts, focusing first on the influence of heat losses through the walls of the set-up.
These leaks have a marked influence on the dynamics because they affect the temperature profiles and hence the density profiles too. We have also classified the various types of instabilities that may appear dues to solutal and thermal effects. We have found a new type of hydrodynamic instability of statically stable fronts induced by the chemical reaction.
We have furthermore analyzed an isothermal model with two chemical species. If they diffuse at different rates the front can be subject to diffusive instabilities as well. We have shown that the coupling between such a diffusive instability and fingering can trigger complex dynamics. We have eventually studied the influence of an external electric field on the diffusive instabilities and on fingering underlying the possibility to destabilize otherwise stable fronts./
Différents types d'instabilités hydrodynamiques peuvent affecter les interfaces entre deux fluides comme par exemple, une instabilité de Rayleigh-Taylor (ou digitation de densité) quand un fluide plus dense se trouve placé au-dessus d'un fluide moins dense dans le champ de gravité ou des instabilités de double diffusion induites par des différences entre les diffusivités d'un soluté et de la chaleur contenus dans les fluides. Dans ce contexte, notre thèse s'attache à comprendre de manière théorique comment une réaction chimique peut influencer ces instabilités voire les générer dans un fluide initialement au repos. Pour étudier les dynamiques résultant du couplage entre réactions chimiques et instabilités hydrodynamiques, nous utilisons des systèmes modèles: les fronts chimiques de conversion résultant de la compétition entre réactions chimiques autocatalytiques et diffusion créant une interface auto-organisée entre les réactifs et les produits. Comme au cours d'une réaction chimique la densité peut varier par des effets solutaux et thermiques, les produits et les réactifs de densités différentes peuvent générer des mouvements de convection qui conduisent à la déstabilisation des fronts.
Nous avons en particulier étudié l'influence de l'exothermicité de la réaction sur les instabilités de digitation de fronts chimiques, en nous focalisant dans un premier temps sur l'influence des pertes de chaleur par les parois du réacteur.
Ces fuites ont un effet marqué sur les instabilitités car elles affectent les profils de température et donc les profils de densité dans le système. Nous avons également classifié les différentes instabilités qui peuvent apparaître via des changements de densité dûs à des effets thermiques et solutaux et mis en évidence un nouveau type de déstabilisation hydrodynamique de fronts statiquement stables induit par une réaction chimique.
Nous avons ensuite analysé un modèle isotherme impliquant deux espèces chimiques. Si ces dernières diffusent a des vitesses différentes le front peut être sujet à une instabilité diffusive. Nous avons montré qu'un couplage entre une telle instabilité diffusive et de la digitation peut être à l'origine de dynamiques complexes. Nous avons ensuite considéré l'influence d'un champ électrique sur les instabilité diffusives et de digitation en soulignant la possibilié de déstabiliser via ce champ des fronts initialement stables.
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Booth, Richard J. S. "Miscible flow through porous media." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:542d3ec1-2894-4a34-9b93-94bc639720c9.
Full textVienne, Lucien. "Simulation of multi-component flows by the lattice Boltzmann method and application to the viscous fingering instability." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CNAM1257/document.
Full textThe lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a specific discrete formulation of the Boltzmann equation. Since its first premises, thirty years ago, this method has gained some popularity and is now applied to almost all standard problems encountered in fluid mechanics including multi-component flows. In this work, we introduce the inter-molecular friction forces to take into account the interaction between molecules of different kinds resulting primarily in diffusion between components. Viscous dissipation (standard collision) and molecular diffusion (inter-molecular friction forces) phenomena are split, and both can be tuned distinctively. The main advantage of this strategy is optimizations of the collision and advanced collision operators are readily compatible. Adapting an existing code from single component to multiple miscible components is straightforward and required much less effort than the large modifications needed from previously available lattice Boltzmann models. Besides, there is no mixture approximation: each species has its own transport coefficients, which can be calculated from the kinetic theory of gases. In general, diffusion and convection are dealt with two separate mechanisms: one acting respectively on the species mass and the other acting on the mixture momentum. By employing an inter-molecular friction force, the diffusion and convection are coupled through the species momentum. Diffusion and convection mechanisms are closely related in several physical phenomena such as in the viscous fingering instability.A simulation of the viscous fingering instability is achieved by considering two species in different proportions in a porous medium: a less viscous mixture displacing a more viscous mixture. The core ingredients of the instability are the diffusion and the viscosity contrast between the components. Two strategies are investigated to mimic the effects of the porous medium. The gray lattice Boltzmann and Brinkman force models, although based on fundamentally different approaches, give in our case equivalent results. For early times, comparisons with linear stability analyses agree well with the growth rate calculated from the simulations. For intermediate times, the evolution of the mixing length can be divided into two stages dominated first by diffusion then by convection, as found in the literature. The whole physics of the viscous fingering is thus accurately simulated. Nevertheless, multi-component diffusion effects are usually not taken into account in the case of viscous fingering with three and more species. These effects are non-negligible as we showcase an initial stable configuration that becomes unstable. The reverse diffusion induces fingering whose impact depends on the diffusion between species
Trnovec, Bystrik. "Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Schichtbildung im Tiefdruck mittels hydrophobierter Druckform mit Applikationsbeispielen aus dem Bereich der gedruckten OPV." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-209748.
Full textIn this work is described experimental research about layer forming from non-Newtonian fluids in gravure printing on non-porous substrates. The viscous fingering, caused through fluid dynamics at splitting of printed material should be decreased by hydrophobic-surface modification of gravure printing form. The aim was to print wave-free homogenous layers. To achieve comparable results, modified and pure form were used simultaneously to print the same material. The printed material was mainly PEDOT:PSS and other, which is used in printed electronics. The properties (surface tension, viscosity) of printed materials were varied by additives. Printing conditions were varied too. The characteristic of printed layers were studied: resistivity, roughness, density, etc. The results shows decreasing of waviness, roughness and viscous fingering in final layer through use of hydrophobic gravure printing form, compared to print results with common printing form. This can be applied not only in the field of printed electronics
Lindner, Anke. "L'instabilité de Saffman-Taylor dans les fluides complexes : relation entre les propriétés rhéologiques et la formation de motifs." Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2000. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00000960.
Full textAl, Nemer Rana. "Effect of two-phase fluid percolation on remodeling of geo-materials." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Ecole centrale de Nantes, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023ECDN0012.
Full textThe goal of carbon neutrality relying massively on the renewable energy sources can be accelerated by considering underground CO2 sequestration and underground storage of (i) hydrogen produced by the water electrolysis from renewable electricity, and (ii) synthesized methane produced by the methanation. However, the injection of these fluids into deep saline aquifers, can trigger local instabilities in the form of fluid fingering, which are precursors of macroscopic instabilities such as micro-seismicity, subsidence or ground swelling. The interaction between the injected fluid, the residential one and the host porous medium is a complex problem. To investigate the response of a solid skeleton percolated by an unsteady bi-phasic flow, an original bi-axial machine adapted to partially saturated geo-materials and providing a hydro-mechanical control, has been set-up. Drainage experiments have been conducted on mechanically loaded water-saturated sand samples by injecting air via an imposed capillary pressure. A testing protocol detailing the steps required to achieve successful drainage test, starting from sample preparation to air injection, has been established. Thanks to a high resolution optical system, the air infiltration through preferential pathway(s) within the granular medium, has been acquired. The monitoring of the propagating finger(s) has required the development of robust algorithm allowing the automatic interface detection for the set of available images. In addition, the skeleton remodeling driven by the fluid percolation has been quantified via finite- element based digital image correlation. The coupling between interface propagation and localized strains has been quantitatively measured as function of the mechanical loading, controlled by the effective stress. The results have shown a correlation between mechanical loading and the heterogeneous percolation in the form of fingering and localized strains
Pumir, Alain. "Tourbillons à trois dimensions et interfaces dans les cellules de hele-shaw." Paris 6, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA066754.
Full textLemaigre, Lorena. "Convective patterns triggered by chemical reactions, dissolution and cross-diffusion: an experimental study." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/229759.
Full textThe understanding of the effect of chemical reactions on fluid motions is an issue at the heart of numerous applications, such as polluted soil remediation or geological storage of CO2. In this context, the goal of our work is to understand through an experimental approach to what extent a chemical reaction is able to modify the development and the properties of buoyancy-driven convective patterns. Our experiments are carried out by putting in contact reactive aqueous solutions or non reactive liquids in a vertical Hele-Shaw cell. This model reactor consists in two glass plates separated by a thin gap and is commonly used to study fluid motions at the laboratory scale. We analyze in various cases the spatio-temporal structures resulting from the build-up of unstable density gradients due to chemical reactions, dissolution processes or cross-diffusion. During our thesis, we first studied the interplay between an acid-base reaction and buoyancy-driven instabilities, namely double diffusion and the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. We have shown that this simple A+B -->C type of reaction breaks the up-down symmetry which is characteristic of the non reactive patterns. Next we focused on a chemical reaction featuring more complex kinetics, namely the oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. The reactants were initially segregated in space in order to spatially localize the reaction at the interface between two solutions with different composition. Our aim is to obtain a localized chemical oscillator and to study its effect on buoyancy-driven flows. To do so, we first characterized the corresponding reaction-diffusion patterns which develop from this particular initial condition. We showed that, in the absence of convection, the spatial segregation of the reactants produces spatial gradients in the excitability and hence the nucleation of one or two spatially localized wave trains. We observed that in the presence of convective motions, these wave trains can also appear and remain localized, according to the type of buoyancy-driven instability which is at play. Moreover the chemical reaction triggers the onset of additional patterns. We have also characterized the hydrodynamic patterns which appear due to cross-diffusion in microemulsions. We have shown that, if a concentration gradient of one species is able to trigger a flux of another species, an unstable density stratification may appear and cause the onset of convection. Finally we have studied the convective dissolution of an organic phase (alkyl formate) into an aqueous phase. We have shown that, above a certain threshold, an increase in the miscibility between the two phases leads to an increase in the intensity of the fluid motions. Our results help to understand the effect of bimolecular or oscillating reactions, dissolution processes and cross-diffusion on the properties of reaction-diffusion-convection structures. This work paves the way towards the study of novel self-organized spatio-temporal patterns coupling the organizing power of chemical reactions and of hydrodynamic flows, both in aqueous solutions and multiphase media.
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Jackson, Michael. "Interfacial instability analysis of viscous flows in a Hele-Shaw channel." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212417/1/Michael_Jackson_Thesis.pdf.
Full textTouré, Abdoulaye. "Hydraulique en charge des fluides thixotropes." Grenoble INPG, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995INPG0051.
Full textGrahn, Alexander. "Strömungsinstabilitäten bei Stoffübergang und chemischer Reaktion an der ebenen Grenzfläche zwischen zwei nicht mischbaren Flüssigkeiten." Forschungszentrum Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:d120-qucosa-28755.
Full textGrahn, Alexander. "Strömungsinstabilitäten bei Stoffübergang und chemischer Reaktion an der ebenen Grenzfläche zwischen zwei nicht mischbaren Flüssigkeiten." Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, 2005. https://hzdr.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21702.
Full textMaes, RENAUD POL. "Etude expérimentale de la digitation visqueuse de fluides miscibles en cellule de Hele-Shaw." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/216585.
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Zacharoudiou, Ioannis. "Viscous fingering and liquid crystals in confinement." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:09b37fb9-5a93-4ea2-8f4f-4e5e70c5fc07.
Full textSingh, Brajesh Kumar. "Flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in porous media, the viscous fingering instability." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0018/MQ49685.pdf.
Full textLira, Sérgio Henrique Albuquerque. "Viscous Fingering In Complex Magnetic Fluids: Weakly Nonlinear Analysis, Stationary Solutions And Phase-field Models." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2014. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/12734.
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Nesta Tese são empregadas técnicas analíticas e numéricas para investigar o fenômeno de formação de dedos viscosos entre fluidos imiscíveis confinados quando um destes fluidos é um fluido magnético complexo. Diferentes tipos de esquemas geométricos efetivamente bidimensionais foram investigados. Duas situações distintas são tomadas com relação à natureza da amostra de fluido magnético: um fluido newtoniano usual, e um fluido magneto-reológico que apresenta um yield stress dependente da intensidade do campo magnético. Equações governantes adequadas são derivadas para cada um dos casos. Para obter um entendimento analítico dos estágios iniciais da evolução temporal da interface foi empregada uma análise fracamente não-linear de modos acoplados. Este tipo de análise acessa a estabilidade de uma interface inicialmente perturbada e também revela a morfologia dos dedos emergentes. Em algumas circunstâncias soluções estacionárias podem ser encontradas mesmo na ordem não-linear mais baixa. Nesta situação é feita uma comparação de algumas destas soluções com soluções estáticas totalmente não-lineares obtidas através de um formalismo de vortex-sheet na condição de equilíbrio. Em seguida foi desenvolvido um modelo de phase-field aplicado a fluidos magnéticos que é capaz de simular numericamente a dinâmica totalmente não-linear do sistema. O modelo consiste em introduzir uma função auxiliar que reproduz uma interface difusa de espessura finita. Utilizando esta ferramenta também é possível estudar um complexo problema de dedos viscosos de origem biológica: o fluxo de actina como um fluido ativo dentro de um fragmento lamelar.
Foyart, Guillaume. "Fractures et instabilités de fluides viscoélastiques en cellule de Hele-Shaw." Phd thesis, Université Montpellier II - Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01019314.
Full textHsiao, Po-Yin, and 蕭博尹. "Control Fingering Instability of Magnetic Fluid in Spin Coating." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58199481299472827666.
Full text國立中央大學
機械工程研究所
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In spin coating, the instability fingers would arise at the wave front of continuous liquid film. Study the magnetic fluid in spin coating submitted to a perpendicular magnetic field. It produces the phenomenon breakup in peaks that the static magnetic fluid is influenced by the perpendicular magnetic field, the magnetization will increase as increasing the intensity of magnetic field and decrease as increasing the viscosity. We compare the trend of no magnetic field, start magnetic field at the same time and magnetic field before rotation, the maximum radius of no magnetic field is greater than the others. In starting magnetic field before rotation, can fix regular number of fingers, fingering is thicker to cause maximum radius diminish. In order to control fingering instability by starting the magnetic field at the same time and before critical radius. Both of them show the similar fingering phenomena. Additionally, with high rotational speed and strong magnetic field exerted, the number of fingers will decrease. While rotating in low rotational speed, the number of fingers will increase. Comparing with the result of no magnetic field and the presence of a magnetic field, we can summary the influence that magnetic field make coating radius and fingering change.
Lin, Kun Yeh, and 林昆燁. "Investigation of the Viscous Fingering in Fluid Assisted Injection Molded Disks." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20919124219468159597.
Full text長庚大學
機械工程研究所
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One of the problems encountered in fluid assisted injection molded parts is the gas or water “fingering” phenomenon, in which gas (water) bubbles penetrate non-uniformly into the core of the parts and form finger-shape branches. Severe fingerings can lead to significant reductions in part stiffness. This study investigated the fingering phenomenon in fluid assisted injection molded disk parts. Experiments were carried out on a reciprocating injection molding machine equipped with gas and water injection units. The material used was virgin polypropylene. A disk cavity with two different thicknesses was used for all experiments. The effects of various processing parameters on the fingering were examined. It was found that the melt short shot size and mold temperature were the principal parameters affecting the formation of part fingerings. In addition, the formation mechanism of part fingerings has also been proposed to better understand the formation of part fingerings. It has been shown that the fluid assisted filling process is an unstable system by nature. Any small perturbation by material viscosity or by temperature gradient can trigger the unbalance of gas (water) penetrations in the parts and result in fingerings.
Lin, Yi-Xuan, and 林怡萱. "Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation of viscous fingering in radial porous media: interplay between injection and wettability." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nks57v.
Full text國立中央大學
機械工程學系
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Displacing a more viscous fluid by another less viscous fluid leads to instabilities of the interface between two fluids due to the viscosity contrast. The phenomenon is called viscous fingering. Researchers already found out that linear time-dependent injection rate is able to suppress this phenomenon. Our work here is to take a step further, by applying the scheme in porous media. We consider the radial Hele-Shaw cell and porous media flow, and focus on how wettability may affect the instability suppress. The results in Hele-Shaw cell show that the linear injection flow rate suppress the instabilities effectively for drainage flow, in which a non-wetting fluid displaces a wetting fluid; On the other hand, this scheme doesn’t work for imbibition flow where a wetting fluid displace a non-wetting fluid. This is because the interfacial force caused by the wettability, directs in same the direction as imbibition flow. In porous media, a linear injection rate has little impact on both kinds of flow. Drainage flow tends to flow toward larger pores while imbibition flow most likely flows toward smaller pores, which both induce the onset of instability that is hardly suppressible by the linear flow rates.
Wu, Tung-Yu, and 吳東育. "Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation of Influence of Suction and Wettability on Viscous Fingering in Radial Porous Media." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r3a25p.
Full text國立中央大學
機械工程學系
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When low-viscosity fluids displace higher-viscosity fluids, it causes the flow instability of the two-phase interface. This phenomenon is called viscous finger. According to previous studies, time-dependent suction flow rate can inhibit the viscous finger at a low capillary number in the Hele-Shaw cell. This study was to confirm whether this method is equally applicable to porous media. We perform the simulation of radial Hele-Shaw cell to analyze the influence of wettability. The results regarding the Hele-Shaw cell show the linear suction flow rate can indeed suppress finger at low capillary number, and drainage flow performs better than imbibition flow at maintaining the stability of the interface. Regarding porous media flow, little it can suppress finger that we use the linear suction flow rate. Under the influence of capillary pressure for differences pore sizes, drainage flow tends to flow to the larger pores and the imbibition flow tends to flow to the smaller pores. Because the wetting fluid can surround the particles by wetting the particles, imbibition flow has a larger fingering width, and display better displacement rates than drainage flow.
Trnovec, Bystrik. "Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Schichtbildung im Tiefdruck mittels hydrophobierter Druckform mit Applikationsbeispielen aus dem Bereich der gedruckten OPV." Doctoral thesis, 2013. https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A20554.
Full textIn this work is described experimental research about layer forming from non-Newtonian fluids in gravure printing on non-porous substrates. The viscous fingering, caused through fluid dynamics at splitting of printed material should be decreased by hydrophobic-surface modification of gravure printing form. The aim was to print wave-free homogenous layers. To achieve comparable results, modified and pure form were used simultaneously to print the same material. The printed material was mainly PEDOT:PSS and other, which is used in printed electronics. The properties (surface tension, viscosity) of printed materials were varied by additives. Printing conditions were varied too. The characteristic of printed layers were studied: resistivity, roughness, density, etc. The results shows decreasing of waviness, roughness and viscous fingering in final layer through use of hydrophobic gravure printing form, compared to print results with common printing form. This can be applied not only in the field of printed electronics.
Catchpoole, Heather J. "The influence of viscosity induced flow instability in liquid chromatography." Thesis, 2009. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/506987.
Full textTsai, Chang-Hao, and 蔡長豪. "Experiment of Labyrinthine Fingering Instability in Magnetic Fluids." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21742683160565039202.
Full text大葉大學
機械工程研究所碩士班
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Labyrinthine fingering phenomena in a circular geometry are observed by a CCD camera and studied for a magnetic fluid submitted to a perpendicular magnetic field. Magnetic fluid is injected at the center of a Hele-Shaw cell filled with air for the immiscible case and diesel oil for the miscible case, respectively. The instability of the interface between the air∕magnetic fluid and diesel oil∕magnetic fluid is more vigorous due to the presence of a magnetic field. The threshold of the instability, number of fingers and the corresponding growth velocity of fingers are magnetic field dependent. In the study of the immiscible cases, the normalization gyration diameters obtained for the high magnetic field with a small diameter of magnetic fluid are nearly the same as those for the low magnetic field with a larger diameter of magnetic fluid. The Hele-Shaw cell with a larger thickness has a higher velocity of finger growth. The preliminary results of the miscible experiment are also presented.The interfaces of immiscible and miscible cases are completely different. Diffusion and convection are observed at the miscible interfaces. Both diffusion and convection of magnetic particles in the miscible experiment play important roles.
(8072786), Soroush Aramideh. "COMPLEX FLUIDS IN POROUS MEDIA: PORE-SCALE TO FIELD-SCALE COMPUTATIONS." Thesis, 2019.
Find full textIn this work, we look into the multi-phase flow and transport through porous media at two different scales, namely pore- and Darcy scales. First, using direct numerical simulations, we study pore-scale Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics. We study the evolution of Lagrangian velocities for uniform injection of particles and numerically verify their relationship with the Eulerian velocity field. We show that for three porous media velocity, probability distributions change over a range of porosities from an exponential distribution to a Gaussian distribution. We thus model this behavior by using a power-exponential function and show that it can accurately represent the velocity distributions. Finally, using fully resolved velocity field and pore-geometry, we show that despite the randomness in the flow and pore space distributions, their two-point correlation functions decay extremely similarly.
Next, we extend our previous study to investigate the effect of viscoelastic fluids on particle dispersion, velocity distributions, and flow resistance in porous media. We show that long-term particle dispersion could not be modulated by using viscoelastic fluids in random porous media. However, flow resistance compared to the Newtonian case goes through three distinct regions depending on the strength of fluid elasticity. We also show that when elastic effects are strong, flow thickens and strongly fluctuates even in the absence of inertial forces.
Next, we focused our attention on flow and transport at the Darcy scale. In particular, we study a tertiary improved oil recovery technique called surfactant-polymer flooding. In this work, which has been done in collaboration with Purdue enhanced oil recovery lab, we aim at modeling coreflood experiments using 1D numerical simulations. To do so, we propose a framework in which various experiments need to be done to quantity surfactant phase behavior, polymer rheology, polymer effects on rock permeability, dispersion, and etc. Then, via a sensitivity study, we further reduce the parameter space of the problem to facilitate the model calibration process. Finally, we propose a multi-stage calibration algorithm in which two critically important parameters, namely peak pressure drop, and cumulative oil recovery factor, are matched with experimental data. To show the predictive capabilities of our framework, we numerically simulate two additional coreflood experiments and show good agreement with experimental data for both of our quantities of interest.
Lastly, we study the unstable displacement of non-aqueous phase liquids (e.g., oil) via a finite-size injection of surfactant-polymer slug in a 2-D domain with homogeneous and heterogeneous permeability fields. Unstable displacement could be detrimental to surfactant-polymer flood and thus is critically important to design it in a way that a piston-like displacement is achieved for maximum recovery. We study the effects of mobility ratio, finite-size length of surfactant-polymer slug, and heterogeneity on the effectiveness of such process by looking into recovery rate and breakthrough and removal times.