Optimal polymer slugs injection profiles

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2022.115042arXiv2012.03114OpenAlexW4313830110MaRDI QIDQ6157933FDOQ6157933

Authors: F. L. Bakharev, Aleksandr Enin, Konstantin Kalinin, Sergey Tikhomirov 

Publication date: 22 June 2023

Published in: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The graded viscosity banks technology (tapering) for polymer flooding is studied for several different models of mixing zones behavior. Depending on the viscosity function the limiting polymer injection profile is rigorously derived for the transverse flow equilibrium model, for the Koval model and for the Todd-Longstaff model. The potential gain in the polymer quantity compared to the profile with a finite number of slugs is numerically estimated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03114

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zbMATH Keywords

taperingpolymer floodingviscous fingeringtransverse flow equilibriumgraded viscosity banksone-phase miscible displacement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76Dxx) Hydrodynamic stability (76Exx) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76Sxx)

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• Velocity of viscous fingers in miscible displacement: intermediate concentration
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