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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The impact of wettability alterations on oil release and transport mechanisms in a 2D porous medium

Flovik, Vegard January 2012 (has links)
The effects of wettability alterations in a 2D network model of a porous media has been studied. By changing the wetting properties of the reservoir through a developed wettability changing algorithm, previously immobile oil clusters in the network are re-mobilized, leading to significant changes in the steady state flow distribution of the model porous mediaThis caused de-stabilization of percolating and trapped clusters as the wettability was changed from an oil wet to a mixed wet system.A critical transition at a certain wetting angle, depending on the initial saturation and lattice size of the system was found. This indicating a possible phase transition from a percolating flow regime to a more uniform flow distribution through the network model. A link between changes in fractional flow and a percolation transition is also suspected, and using the theoretical framework of percolation theory, critical exponents were estimated.

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