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To be able to obtain predictions of reserves and plan the development of reservoirs of natural hydrocarbons, we need to know whether the multi-component fluid which saturates the porous medium is at rest or in motion. For instance, apart from the states of mechanical equilibrium of a multi-component column under gravity or subject to a geothermal gradient considered in Chapters 24 and 25, there might initially be steady convective flow in reservoirs [193]. This question has been solved in the linear theory of stability under gravity and in the presence of geothermal and concentration gradients in [115,166].
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Bedrikovetsky, P., Rowan, G. (1993). Analysis of Convective Instabilities in Binary Mixtures in Porous Media. In: Rowan, G. (eds) Mathematical Theory of Oil and Gas Recovery. Petroleum Engineering and Development Studies, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2205-6_26
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