Optimal polymer slugs injection profiles

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2022.115042MaRDI QIDQ6157933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

graded viscosity banksone-phase miscible displacementpolymer floodingtaperingtransverse flow equilibriumviscous fingering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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