| Abstract: | The article considers the problem of the filtration of liquids (or gases), pumped through a borehole at a constant rate with elastic filtration conditions. The permeability of the stratum is assumed to be an exponential function of the coordinates. The viscosities of the injected and displaced liquids are assumed to be different. To increase the capacity of strata, i.e., of collectors used for the burial of industrial waste flows and gases, various methods are employed to increase the fracturing and the permeability of the rocks (hydro-pulse techniques, explosions, and other methods). As a result of this, a spherical region is formed in the rocks, in which the permeability varies along the radius. The character of this change is well described by an exponential function. The pumping of waste flows or industrial gases into such a cavity leads to the displacement of the stratum liquid (or gas). The problem of the displacement of one liquid by another liquid not miscible with it under rigid filtration conditions was first discussed in [1–5]. Here a study was made of a region of finite dimensions, bounded by two boundaries, with given pressures or mass flow rates (the linear and axisymmetric flow problems). The permeability of the stratum was assumed to be independent of the coordinates. A special characteristic of these problems is the fact that it is impossible to consider unbounded or semi-bounded filtration conditions in them since, under rigid filtration conditions, the condition of bounded character of the pressure (the head) is not satisfied at infinity. Elastic filtration conditions for two immiscible liquids were first discussed in [6], and later in [7, 8] and other reports. Here an investigation was made of the linear and axisymmetric problems for an unbounded region. In [9, 10] solutions are given to some problems with spherical symmetry for an unbounded region, with rigid filtration conditions and a jumpwise change of the permeability along the radius. In the problems of [6–10] the condition of the bounded character of the pressure is satisfied. In [11] the case of a hyperbolic change in the permeability of the rocks is considered.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 42–51, November–December, 1974. |
