A fully-coupled discontinuous Galerkin method for two-phase flow in porous media with discontinuous capillary pressure

P Bastian - Computational Geosciences, 2014 - Springer
In this paper, we formulate and test numerically a fully-coupled discontinuous Galerkin (DG)
method for incompressible two-phase flow with discontinuous capillary pressure. The spatial …

A lattice Boltzmann model for two-phase flow in porous media

Z Chai, H Liang, R Du, B Shi - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2019 - SIAM
In this paper, a lattice Boltzmann (LB) model with double distribution functions is proposed
for two-phase flow in porous media where one distribution function is used for pressure …

Finite volume approximation for an immiscible two-phase flow in porous media with discontinuous capillary pressure

K Brenner, C Cancès, D Hilhorst - Computational Geosciences, 2013 - Springer
We consider an immiscible incompressible two-phase flow in a porous medium composed
of two different rocks so that the capillary pressure field is discontinuous at the interface …

Numerical investigations on two-phase fluid flow in a fractured porous medium fully coupled with geomechanics

M Gudala, SK Govindarajan - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A fully coupled two-phase fluid flow and geomechanical model has been used to investigate
the impact of injection fluid flow and geomechanics on reservoir pressure, effective stresses …

Higher-order black-oil and compositional modeling of multiphase compressible flow in porous media

MA Amooie, J Moortgat - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2018 - Elsevier
We present continuum-scale modeling of multiphase compressible flow in porous media
with applications to hydrocarbon reservoir engineering. A new black-oil model is developed …

A novel discontinuous Galerkin model for two-phase flow in porous media using an improved IMPES method

M Jamei, H Ghafouri - International Journal of Numerical Methods for …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present an efficient improved version of Implicit
Pressure-Explicit Saturation (IMPES) method for the solution of incompressible two-phase …

A fully interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for variable density groundwater flow problems

AR Isa-Abadi, V Fontaine, HR Ghafouri, A Younes… - Computers & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods due to their robustness properties, eg local
conservation, low numerical dispersion, and well-capturing strong shocks and physical …

Positivity-preserving finite volume scheme for compressible two-phase flows in anisotropic porous media: The densities are depending on the physical pressures

M Ghilani, M Saad - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
We are concerned with the approximation of solutions to a compressible two-phase flow
model in porous media thanks to an enhanced control volume finite element discretization …

Optimal Switching Time Control Constrained by Immiscible Two-Phase Porous Media Flow Based on the Discontinuous Galerkin Method

D Kong, H Rui, W Zhao - Journal of Scientific Computing, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents a gradient-based approach for solving a switching time control problem
under the two-phase porous media flow within petroleum extraction. The primary goal is to …

Numerical simulation of different-scale fracture effects on saturation distributions in waterflooding via the finite volume method

C Tang, W Zhou, Z Du, Z Chen, J Wei - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Capturing the heterogeneity and multiple scales in fractured media is important for
understanding the underlying mechanisms controlling the flow behavior, as both natural and …