Local statistics of immiscible and incompressible two-phase flow in porous media
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2023Metadata
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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 2023, 616 . 10.1016/j.physa.2023.128626Abstract
We consider immiscible and incompressible two-phase flow in porous media under steady-state conditions using a dynamic pore network model. We focus on the fluctuations in a Representative Elementary Area (REA), with the aim to demonstrate that the statistical distributions of the volumetric flow rate and the saturation within the REA become independent of the size of the entire model when the model is large enough. This independence is a necessary condition for developing a local statistical theory for the flow, which in turn opens for the possibility to formulate a description at scales large enough for the typical pore size to be negligible using differential equations.