Dynamic fluid flow behaviour of a tank draining through a vertical tube

This paper describes the unsteady draining of a sealed tank partially filled with water. The water discharges via a vertical tube into an open tank at atmospheric conditions. The air inflow, compensating for the volume of the discharged liquid, enters the system in an oscillatory manner, much like the “gulping” seen in an upended beer bottle. A mathematical model, based closly on that derived by Dougall & Kathiresan [Chem. Engng Commun. 8, 289–304 (1981)], has been applied to predict the pressure fluctuations in the closed tank. The rate of water discharge from the tank has been predicted and gives a much closer agreement with experimental results than a prediction based on a steady counter-current flooding limitation approach. A drift flux model has been used to describe the two-phase flow effect in the tube and the Wallis flooding criterion has been modified for use in the slug flow regime to describe the boundary conditions at the bottom of the tube. The pressure fluctuations in the sealed tank have been measured and compared with results obtained from the mathematical prediction for a variety of tube diameters.     

Simulation of micellar-polymericwater-flooding in a system of wells

A mathematical model of the time-dependent two-dimensional flow of a two-phase multicomponent incompressible fluid through a porous medium is proposed for the micellar-polymeric flooding of oil reservoirs. The oil displacement process is investigated numerically using an implicit first-order-accurate upwind scheme with integration over the nonlinearity on a uniform grid under the assumption of plane-radial motion in the neighborhood of the wells. The influence of the nonuniform permeability of the porous medium on the efficiency of the proposed method of improving oil recovery is analyzed using a five-point slug injection scheme.Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, 2004, pp. 124–132. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Inogamov and Khabeev.     

Analytical Solutions to Multiphase First-Contact Miscible Models with Viscous Fingering

In this paper, we analyze an empirical model of viscous fingering for three-component, two-phase, first-contact miscible flows. We present the complete range of analytical solutions to secondary and tertiary water-alternating-gas (WAG) floods. An important ingredient in the construction of analytical solutions is the presence of detached (nonlocal) branches of the Hugoniot locus, that is, curves in composition space that satisfy the Rankine–Hugoniot conditions but do not contain the reference state. We illustrate how, in water–solvent floods into a medium with mobile water and residual oil (immobile to water), the solvent front and the water Buckley–Leverett front may interact, resulting in a leading water/solvent shock that is stable to viscous fingering. The analytical solutions explain why in these miscible tertiary floods, oil and solvent often break through simultaneously. We discuss the implications of the new solutions in the design of miscible tertiary floods, such as the estimation of the optimum WAG ratio.     

Ultra-Low Interfacial Tension Between Heavy Oil and Betaine-Type Amphoteric Surfactants

Betaine surfactants with lipophilic groups of different lengths were synthesized in this research and the dynamic interfacial tension (IFT) between solutions of these surfactants and three kinds of crude oil from Shengli Oilfield are measured. The results indicated that, for Gudao and Gudong heavy oil, cetyl dimethyl hydroxyl sulfobetaine (SBET-16) was the most efficient in lowering the IFT in the case of no alkalis, while for Shengtuo heavy oil, cetyl dimethyl carboxymethyl betaine (CBET-16) was best. SBET-16 with the concentration of 0.003–0.1% and 0.005–0.1% can reduce the oil/water IFT to ultra-low for Gudao and Gudong oil respectively, CBET-16 with the concentration of 0.005–0.1% can lower the oil/water IFT to ultra-low for Shengtuo oil. These results showed that for different oils, an oil displacement agent with high capacity to lower the oil/water interfacial tension may be obtained only by changing the molecular structure of betaine surfactant. This study can be used to guide the design of surfactants for alkaline-free combination flooding.     

Laboratory Study on Low Gas/Liquid Ratio Foam Flooding for Zhuangxi Heavy Oil

Considering the high cost and injection pressure of conventional foam flooding, foam flooding with low gas/liquid ratio was proposed to enhance the heavy oil recovery. A foamer containing 0.2 wt% α -olefin sulfonate, 0.1 wt% HPAM and 0.5 wt% Na₂CO₃ was selected for Zhuangxi heavy oil. Then the foam stability and low gas/liquid ratio foam flooding were studied via micro model and sand pack experiments. The results indicate that the foam is much more stable in heavy oil than in diesel; in flooding tests, this foamer with gas/liquid ratio of 0.2:1 increases the oil recovery by 39.8%, which is nearly 11% higher than ASP solution in terms of the same injection volume (0.3PV) and agents.     

Analysis of Capillary–Viscous–Gravity Forces in Biopolymer Flooding with a Sensitivity Analysis on Polymer and Porous Medium Parameters

Gravity, viscous, and capillary are three main forces affecting flow characteristics in porous media. No analytical solution can be found to model the flow by considering all these forces. In this work, by considering all these forces, the polymer-flooding process is modeled by using a numerical simulation approach. For characterizing the polymer, the modified Blake–Kozeny model is chosen, which benefits consideration of the permeability reduction due to polymer adsorption on the rock surface.     

Performance evaluation of mobile ad hoc networks under flooding‐based attacks

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is an open wireless network that comprises a set of mobile, decentralized, and self‐organized nodes. Its properties render its environment susceptible to different types of attacks, which can paralyze the mobile nodes in MANET. A particularly dangerous type of attack is run primarily under flooding bogus packet mechanisms, such as hello floods, routing table overflows, exploitation of node penalizing schemes, and resource consumption attack (RCA). Flooding‐based attacks impose severe effects because they are intended to consume MANET resources, such as bandwidth, node memory, and battery power. Therefore, identifying such effects facilitates the development of countermeasures against the intrusions. In this paper, we introduce a simulation‐based study on the effects of RCA on MANET. Qual Net v5.0.2 is used to examine the severity of the effects on MANET performance metrics in terms of throughput, end‐to‐end delay, energy consumption, and routing overhead. The effects of RCA are also monitored under two combinations of four factors: we first vary the number of attackers and attackers' positions, and then modify the attackers' radio range and flooding rate. We also examine the effect of flooding mechanism on the energy consumed by resource consumption attackers. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Improving broadcast performance by traffic isolation in wireless ad hoc networks

In this paper we propose a new broadcasting algorithm. In the proposed method we significantly reduce the broadcast overhead and also improve the broadcast delivery ratio in mobile networks. A novel traffic isolation method has been used which reduces the control message exchange. The proposed broadcasting method is based on a clustering method called ‘stability‐based clustering algorithm’ which had been proposed before. The broadcasting traffic is divided into internal (flow inside a cluster) and external traffic (flow among the clusters). For internal flooding traffic, cluster‐heads and gateways are responsible for re‐broadcasting but for external type, border nodes may perform the forwarding function as well. This simplifies the gateway selection method through the local selection of gateway nodes by its cluster head. Therefore, a cluster head selects gateway in its own cluster without any knowledge of other clusters. Considering the effect of mobility and node density, simulations have been conducted in a number of wireless environments. Simulation results show the broadcast coverage is close to 100% at different node speeds. Moreover, we study the broadcast parameters in light and dense networks and show improvement of the overhead and the number of forward nodes in comparison to other broadcasting methods. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Study on frequency optimization and mechanism of ultrasonic waves assisting water flooding in low-permeability reservoirs

Water flooding is one of widely used technique to improve oil recovery from conventional reservoirs, but its performance in low-permeability reservoirs is barely satisfactory. Besides adding chemical agents, ultrasonic wave is an effective and environmental-friendly strategy to assist in water flooding for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in unconventional reservoirs. The acoustic frequency plays a dominating role in the EOR performance of ultrasonic wave and is usually optimized through a series of time-consuming laboratory experiments. Hence, this study proposes an unsupervised learning method to group low-permeability cores in terms of permeability, porosity and wettability. This grouping algorithm succeeds to classify the 100 natural cores adopted in this study into five categories and the water flooding experiment certificates the accuracy and reliability of the clustering results. It is proved that ultrasonic waves can further improve the oil recovery yielded by water-flooding, especially in the oil-wet and weakly water-wet low-permeability cores. Furthermore, we investigated the EOR mechanism of ultrasonic waves in the low-permeability reservoir via scanning electron microscope observation, infrared characterization, interfacial tension and oil viscosity measurement. Although ultrasonic waves cannot ameliorate the components of light oil as dramatically as those of heavy oil, such compound changes still contribute to the oil viscosity and oil-water interfacial tension reductions. More importantly, ultrasonic waves may modify the micromorphology of low-permeability cores and improve the pore connectivity.     

基于C8051F040多路浸水时刻记录电路设计

针对某型航行器自沉系统中,需要掌握某合金材料在海水中因不同温度条件下的受腐蚀时间长短。采用模块化硬件设计,使用浸水传感器为检测单元、时钟芯片DS12887为计时模块;以C8051F040为微处理器和串行M25P80为存储模块设计浸水时间记录系统。外部数据通信采用CAN总线。通过实践证明,DS12887时钟能在掉电后正常运行,但时间长,需要新设定时间,以便准时记录。