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Two-phase flow properties upscaling in heterogeneous porous media

The groundwater specialists and the reservoir engineers share the same interest in simulating multiphase flow in soil with heterogeneous intrinsic properties. They also both face the challenge of going from a well-modeled micrometer scale to the reservoir scale with a controlled loss of information. This upscaling process is indeed worthy to make simulation over an entire reservoir manageable and stochastically repeatable. Two upscaling steps can be defined: one from the micrometer scale to the Darcy scale, and another from the Darcy scale to the reservoir scale. In this thesis, a new second upscaling multiscale algorithm Finite Volume Mixed Hybrid Multiscale Methods (Fv-MHMM) is investigated. Extension to a two-phase flow system is done by weakly and sequentially coupling saturation and pressure via IMPES-like method.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:univ-toulouse.fr/oai:oatao.univ-toulouse.fr:21684
Date18 January 2018
CreatorsFranc, Jacques
ContributorsInstitut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT (FRANCE), Institut de mécanique des fluides de Toulouse
Source SetsUniversité de Toulouse
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePhD Thesis, PeerReviewed, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationhttp://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/21684/

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