A coupled model for multiphase fluid flow and sedimentation deformation in oil reservoir and its numerical simulation

A mathematical model for coupled multiphase fluid flow and sedimentation deformation is developed based on fluid-solid interaction mechanism. A finite difference-finite element numerical approach is presented. The results of an example show that the fluid-solid coupled effect has great influence on multiphase fluid flow and reservoir recovery performances, and the coupled model has practical significance for oilfield development.     

弹塑性变形油藏中多相渗流的数值模拟

基于流固耦合力学理论,建立了弹性变形油藏中多相渗流的数学模型,该模型考虑了渗流与变形的耦合作用,以及注采交变载荷作下油藏多孔介质的弹性变形特征,给出了耦合数值模拟方法和算例。     

Comparison of the GMRES and ORTHOMIN for the black oil model in porous media

This paper deals with the application of the GMRES algorithm to a three‐dimensional, three‐phase black oil model used in petroleum reservoir simulation. Comparisons between the GMRES and ORTHOMIN algorithms in terms of storage and total flops per restart step are given. Numerical results show that the GMRES is faster than the ORTHOMIN for large‐scale simulation problems. The GMRES uses only as much as 63% of the CPU time of the ORTHOMIN for some of the problems tested. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Krylov subspace projection method and its application on oil reservoir simulation

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Application of a line implicit method to fully coupled system of equations for turbulent flow problems

For unstructured finite volume methods, we present a line implicit Runge–Kutta method applied as smoother in an agglomerated multigrid algorithm to significantly improve the reliability and convergence rate to approximate steady-state solutions of the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations. To describe turbulence, we consider a one-equation Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model. The line implicit Runge–Kutta method extends a basic explicit Runge–Kutta method by a preconditioner given by an approximate derivative of the residual function. The approximate derivative is only constructed along predetermined lines which resolve anisotropies in the given grid. Therefore, the method is a canonical generalisation of point implicit methods. Numerical examples demonstrate the improvements of the line implicit Runge–Kutta when compared with explicit Runge–Kutta methods accelerated with local time stepping.     

Steady-state two-phase flow through planar and nonplanar model porous media

Transport in Porous Media - A comparative experimental study of ‘steady-state’ two-phase flow in two types of model porous media is made to determine the effects of nonplanarity on the...     

Effect of residual oil saturation on the flow through a porous medium in the neighborhood of an injection well

Models of the residual oil saturation and models of its effect on the flow in injection wells are proposed. The threshold nature of the dependence of the residual oil saturation on the capillary number determines a change in the flow regimes in the neighborhood of the injection well. The cases of pure, contaminated, and compressible reservoirs are considered. The dependences of the basic problem parameters on the displacement conditions and the state of the reservoir are obtained, together with formulas for the pressure distribution and well injectivity. The topicality of such a simulation for field calculations is demonstrated.     

Dynamic response of a deepwater riser subjected to combined axial and transverse excitation by the nonlinear coupled model

In offshore engineering long slender risers are simultaneously subjected to both axial and transverse excitations. The axial load is the fluctuating top tension which is induced by the floater’s heave motion, while the transverse excitation comes from environmental loads such as waves. As the time-varying axial load may trigger classical parametric resonance, dynamic analysis of a deepwater riser with combined axial and transverse excitations becomes more complex. In this study, to fully capture the coupling effect between the planar axial and transverse vibrations, the nonlinear coupled equations of a riser’s dynamic motion are formulated and then solved by the central difference method in the time domain. For comparison, numerical simulations are carried out for both linear and nonlinear models. The results show that the transverse displacements predicted by both models are similar to each other when only the random transverse excitation is applied. However, when the combined axial dynamic tension and transverse wave forces are both considered, the linear model underestimates the response because it ignores the coupling effect. Thus the coupled model is more appropriate for deep water. It is also found that the axial excitation can significantly increase the riser’s transverse response and hence the bending stress, especially for cases when the time-varying tension is located at the classical parametric resonance region. Such time-varying effects should be taken into account in fatigue safety assessment.     

Parallel solution of a coupled flow and transport model for shallow water

We present an integrated approach for the concurrent solution of a 3D hydrodynamical model coupled with a 3D transport model. Since both models are quite similar in nature, the same numerical method has been employed. This leads to a code that is more efficient than when two existing codes would have been combined. Discretization of the spatial differential operators, and the boundary conditions, results in a stiff initial value problem. To cope with the stiffness, we select an implicit time‐integration formula, viz. the second‐order, L‐stable BDF method because of its excellent stability properties. To reduce the huge amount of linear algebra involved in solving the implicit relations, an Approximate Factorization technique has been used. Essentially, this technique replaces a ‘multi‐dimensional’ system by a series of ‘one‐dimensional’ systems. Since the output of the hydrodynamical model (i.e., the flow field) serves as input for the transport model, we solve the hydrodynamical model one time step ahead in time. This allows us to solve the models in parallel, using two different groups of processors. By a little tuning of the parameters in the algorithm, a load‐balancing has been obtained that is close to optimal. As a result, both models require roughly the same amount of CPU time, so that one of them, effectively, can be considered as obtained ‘for free’. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Comparison of GMRES and ORTHOMIN for the black oil model on unstructured grids

This paper addresses an application of ORTHOMIN and GMRES to petroleum reservoir simulation using the black oil model on unstructured grids. Comparisons between these two algorithms are presented in terms of storage and total flops per restart step. Numerical results indicate that GMRES is faster than ORTHOMIN for all tested petroleum reservoir problems, particularly for large scale problems. The control volume function approximation method is utilized in the discretization of the governing equations of the black oil model. This method can accurately approximate both the pressure and velocity in the simulation of multiphase flow in porous media, effectively reduce grid orientation effects, and be easily applied to arbitrarily shaped control volumes. It is particularly suitable for hybrid grid reservoir simulation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Thermodynamic analysis and numerical resolution of a turbulent - fully ionized plasma flow model

This paper is devoted to the modeling and numerical resolution of a non-dissipative compressible turbulent plasma flow model involving three temperatures (turbulence, ions and electrons). The first step is to derive such a model. To do this, an analysis of the Reynolds averaged Euler equations (the k-model) is carried out. It is shown that thermodynamic requirements enable the derivation of an equation of state for turbulent variables. This equation of state is of the same type as those of an ideal gas. In this context, the various thermodynamic variables of turbulence can be obtained (energy, pressure, temperature etc.). This hyperbolic conservative model has exactly the same structure as the two temperatures plasma model of Zeldovich. Thanks to the clear structure of these two models, the turbulent plasma model is derived and involves three temperatures. The second step is to derive an accurate numerical scheme for its solution. A linearized Riemann solver and a positive HLLC type solver are derived and embedded into a conventional Godunov scheme. It is shown that this method requires important corrections to preserve contact discontinuities and temperatures monotonicity. The corrections are based upon a non-conservative formulation of the turbulence and electrons energy equations, while total energy conservation is preserved. The modified method behaves correctly with contacts and shocks.Received: 11 February 2002, Revised: 19 June 2003, Accepted: 7 August 2003, Published online: 14 October 2003 Correspondence to: R. Saurel     

混凝土中化学-热-湿-力耦合过程的数值方法

提出了一个火灾下混凝土中化学-热-湿-力耦合过程分析的两级数学模型. 混凝 土模型化为充满两种非混溶孔隙流体的非饱和变形多孔多相介质. 数学模型基于控制干空 气、湿份及基质溶解物的质量守恒、混凝土介质混合体的动量守恒和焓(能量)守恒的耦合 偏微分方程组. 模型中特别考虑到了高温下的脱盐过程. 构造了一个用于数值模拟 化学-热-湿-力耦合行为的有限元求解过程的混合弱形式. 并且针对其中具有非自伴随算子特性的 双曲线控制方程的空间离散进行了特殊考虑. 数值结果例题显示所发展的数学模型和数值方 法在重现火灾条件下的混凝土中化学-热-湿-力耦合行为的有效性.     

Large eddy simulation in a fully developed turbulent flow in a channel and comparison of subgrid eddy viscosity models

The accuracy and computational efficiency are compared for a number of models of subgrid eddy viscosity (Smagorinsky model, renormalization group model, and dynamic and one-parameter models). Space-filtered Navier-Stokes equations are solved numerically by the control-volume approach on a nonuniform grid with the use of high-resolution schemes in time and space. The numerical data are compared with the results of a physical experiment and direct numerical simulation. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 31–42, May–June, 2006.     

On the efficiency of linearization schemes and coupled multigrid methods in the simulation of a 3D flow around a cylinder

This paper studies the efficiency of two ways to treat the non‐linear convective term in the time‐dependent incompressible Navier–Stokes equations and of two multigrid approaches for solving the arising linear algebraic saddle point problems. The Navier–Stokes equations are discretized by a second‐order implicit time stepping scheme and by inf–sup stable, higher order finite elements in space. The numerical studies are performed at a 3D flow around a cylinder. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Gravitational and acoustic waves due to the motion of an oscillating thin plate beneath the surface of a heavy weakly-compressible fluid

The three-dimensional problem of the motion of a thin plate in an inviscid, heavy, weakly-compressible fluid is solved. The surface tension is disregarded. The plate moves rectilinearly at a constant velocity under the surface of an infinite-depth fluid and oscillates at a given frequency. The fluctuating dipole potential is obtained from the Euler and continuity equations with account for the conditions on the free surface (linear theory of small waves) and the conditions at infinity. The density distribution function of the dipole layer is determined from the boundary conditions imposed on the plate surface. Formulas for calculating the far acoustic field are derived. The calculations for a square plate are carried out.     

Large eddy simulation and a simple wall model for turbulent flow calculation by a particle method

A turbulent channel flow and the flow around a cubic obstacle are calculated by the moving particle semi‐implicit method with the subparticle‐scale turbulent model and a wall model, which is based on the zero equation RANS (Reynolds Averaged Navier‐Stokes). The wall model is useful in practical problems that often involve high Reynolds numbers and wall turbulence, because it is difficult to keep high resolution in the near‐wall region in particle simulation. A turbulent channel flow is calculated by the present method to validate our wall model. The mean velocity distribution agrees with the log‐law velocity profile near the wall. Statistical values are also the same order and tendency as experimental results with emulating viscous layer by the wall model. We also investigated the influence of numerical oscillations on turbulence analysis in using the moving particle semi‐implicit method. Finally, the turbulent flow around a cubic obstacle is calculated by the present method to demonstrate capability of calculating practical turbulent flows. Three characteristic eddies appear in front of, over, and in the back of the cube both in our calculation and the experimental result that was obtained by Martinuzzi and Tropea. Mean velocity and turbulent intensity profiles are predicted in the same order and have similar tendency as the experimental result. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Towards a new partially integrated transport model for coarse grid and unsteady turbulent flow simulations

A new two-equation model is proposed for large eddy simulations (LESs) using coarse grids. The modeled transport equations are obtained from a direct transposition of well-known statistical models by using multiscale spectrum splitting given by the filtering operation applied to the Navier–Stokes equations. The model formulation is compatible with the two extreme limits that are on one hand a direct numerical simulation and on the other hand a full statistical modeling. The characteristic length scale of subgrid turbulence is no longer given by the spatial discretization step size, but by the use of a dissipation equation. The proposed method is applied to a transposition of the well-known k- statistical model, but the same method can be developed for more advanced closures. This approach is intended to contribute to non-zonal hybrid models that bridge Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) and LES, by using a continuous change rather than matching zones. The main novelty in the model is the derivation of a new equation for LES that is formally consistent with RANS when the filter width is very large. This approach is dedicated to applications to non-equilibrium turbulence and coarse grid simulations. An illustration is made of large eddy simulations of turbulence submitted to periodic forcing. The model is also an alternative approach to hybrid models. PACS 47.27.Eq     

Application of a thermodynamically compatible two‐phase flow model to the high‐resolution simulations of compressible gas–magma flow

This paper reports on the application and development of a fully hyperbolic and fully conservative two‐phase flow model for the simulation of gas and magma flow within volcanic processes. The model solves a set of mixture conservation equations for the gas and magma two‐phase flow with velocity non‐equilibrium. In this model, the effect of the relative velocity is introduced by a kinetic constitutive equation with other equations for volume and mass fractions of the gas phase. The model is examined numerically by the widely used finite volume Godunov methods of centered‐type. Using the Riemann problem, we numerically simulate wave propagation and the development of shocks and rarefactions in volcanic eruptions. These simulations are of magma fragmentation type where the relative velocity continues to dominate. A series of test cases whose solution contains features relevant to gas–magma mixtures are conducted. In particular, numerical results indicate that the model implementation predicts key features of the relative velocity within volcanic processes without any mathematical or physical simplifications. Simulation results are sharply and accurately provided without any spurious oscillations in all of the flow variables. The numerical methods and results are also compared with other numerical methods available in the literature. It is found that the provided resolutions are more accurate for the considered test cases. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effect of flows between formations and capillary forces on the process of oil displacement in a stratified inhomogeneous bed

The results of a numerical investigation of the process of oil displacement in a stratified inhomogeneous formation on the basis of the two-phase flow model with account for capillary forces are presented. It is shown that in many cases the vertical inhomogeneity of oil reservoirs may not be a cause of nonuniform displacement and the non-recovery of large oil reserves by the time of water breakthrough to the extraction surface. The action of the capillary forces is an additional factor leading to equalization of the water propagation front in the inhomogeneous formation, water breakthrough delay, and intensification of the mass transfer between the layers with different permeabilities. Analysis of the contribution of the interlayer flows to the water flooding of low-permeability formation intervals calls into question the practicability of blocking high-permeability inclusions in the neighborhood of pumping wells.