《Direct pore-level modeling of incompressible fluid flow in porous media》.pdf

Journal of Computational Physics 229 (2010) 7456–7476 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Computational Physics journal homepage: www.else /locate/jcp Direct pore-level modeling of incompressible fluid flow in porous media Saeed Ovaysi *, Mohammad Piri Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-2000, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We present a dynamic particle-based model for direct pore-level modeling of incompress- Received 6 September 2009 ible viscous fluid flow in disordered porous media. The model is capable of simulating flow Received in revised form 15 June 2010 directly in three-dimensional high-resolution micro-CT images of rock samples. It is based Accepted 15 June 2010 on moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method. We modify this technique in order to Available online 23 June 2010 improve its stability for flow in porous media problems. Using the micro-CT image of a rock sample, the entire medium, i.e., solid and fluid, is discretized into particles. The incom- Keywords: pressible Navier–Stokes equations are then solved for each particle using the MPS summa- Moving particle semi-implicit Particle-based methods tions. The model handles highly irregular fluid–solid boundaries effectively. An algorithm Porous media to split and merge fluid particles is also introduced. To handle the computational load, we