Crossover from Nonlinearity Controlled to Heterogeneity Controlled Mixing in Two-Phase Porous Media Flows |
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| Authors: | Frederico Furtado Felipe Pereira |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3036, USA;(2) Instituto Politécnico, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Alberto Rangel, s/n, Nova Friburgo, RJ, 28601-970, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | We use high resolution Monte Carlo simulations to study the dispersive mixing in two-phase, immiscible, porous media flow that results from the interaction of the nonlinearities in the flow equations with geologic heterogeneity. Our numerical experiments show that distinct dispersive regimes occur depending on the relative strength of nonlinearity and heterogeneity. In particular, for a given degree of multiscale heterogeneity, controlled by the Hurst exponent which characterizes the underlying stochastic model for the heterogeneity, linear and nonlinear flows are essentially identical in their degree of dispersion, if the heterogeneity is strong enough. As the heterogeneity weakens, the dispersion rates cross over from those of linear heterogeneous flows to those typical of nonlinear homogeneous flows. |
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| Keywords: | fractals heterogeneity mixing multiphase flow porous media random fields scale up scaling laws |
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