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Mixing and spreading of multiphase fluids in heterogeneous bimodal porous media

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We investigate the impact of heterogeneous bimodal porous media on fluid mixing and spreading in viscously-unstable flows. Previous studies have mostly studied miscible mixing and spreading behavior in unimodal media. We characterize the temporal evolution of these processes in bimodal media and under both miscible and partially miscible conditions. We model advection-diffusion transport of a finite volume of \(\hbox {CO}_2\) diluting within a rectilinear background flow of a multicomponent compressible hydrocarbon fluid. Accurate numerical simulations are performed to capture the details of hydrodynamic instabilities as well as the heterogeneity channelling. Thermodynamic phase behavior and Fickian diffusion are represented based on rigorous equation of state. We generate by means of a Markov Chain approach the permeability fields that represent facies architecture by volume fractions of each facies unit. Our results show that bimodal media significantly alter the flow pattern and spreading dynamics, especially at lower proportions of the high-permeability facies. However, we find the miscible mixing to be less sensitive to bimodal media, as a result of a delicate balance between fingering and permeability channeling. On other hand, spreading is usually lower in partially miscible flows, but this can be overridden by channeling due to bimodal media. The new hydrothermodynamic mechanisms that predominantly drive most of the mixing in partially miscible systems are still in effect even in bimodal media regardless of the facies architecture. Therefore, partially miscible mixing is negligibly impacted by bimodal heterogeneity. Our qualitative and quantitative results elucidate the key flow processes resulting from bimodal structures, and also rationalize the distinct mixing and spreading behaviors that emerge differently from the interplay between hydrothermodynamic mechanisms and flow channeling.

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The second author was supported by the U. S. Department6 of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy funding to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) under project FEAA-045. ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.

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    Mohammad Amin Amooie, Mohamad Reza Soltanian, Fengyang Xiong & Joachim Moortgat

  2. Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA

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  3. College of Construction Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China

    Zhenxue Dai

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Amooie, M.A., Soltanian, M.R., Xiong, F. et al. Mixing and spreading of multiphase fluids in heterogeneous bimodal porous media. Geomech. Geophys. Geo-energ. Geo-resour. 3, 225–244 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40948-017-0060-8

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