Zami-Pierre, Frédéric and Davit, Yohan and Loubens, Romain de and Quintard, Michel Flow of polymer fluids through porous media. (2016) In: Pore Scale Modeling Total Workshop, 8 June 2016 - 9 June 2016 (Pau, France). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Non-Newtonian fluids are extensively used in enhanced oil recovery. However, understanding the flow of such fluids in complex porous media remains a challenging problem. In the presented study, we use computational fluid dynamics to investigate the creeping flow of a particular non-Newtonian fluid through porous media, namely a power-law fluid with a newtonian behavior below a critical shear rate. We show that the nonlinear effects induced by the rheology only weakly impact the topological structure of the flow and that the non-Newtonian problem is a regular perturbation from the Newtonian case. We demonstrate that this transition results from a coupling between the multiscale nature of the porous medium and the specific non-Newtonian property of the fluid. We develop a theory that allows us to propose a general model for the macro-scale transition.
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Audience (conference): | International conference without published proceedings |
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Institution: | French research institutions > Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE) Other partners > Total (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE) |
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Deposited On: | 21 Jul 2016 15:15 |
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