Pore Level Modeling of Immiscible Displacements in Heterogeneous Media

Flores de Dios Mosqueda, Tania

Pore Level Modeling of Immiscible Displacements in Heterogeneous Media

dc.contributor.advisor	Kantzas, Apostolos K.
dc.contributor.advisor	Hejazi, Seyed Hossein
dc.contributor.author	Flores de Dios Mosqueda, Tania
dc.contributor.committeemember	Aguilera, Roberto F.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Hassanzadeh, Hassan
dc.date	2019-11
dc.date.accessioned	2019-08-12T17:12:54Z
dc.date.available	2019-08-12T17:12:54Z
dc.date.issued	2019-08-01
dc.description.abstract	In the petroleum industry, Reservoir Simulation plays an important role to forecast production behaviour. In this field it is essential to know the reservoir production performance under different types of exploitation. This is a key in choosing the accurate production process for a reservoir. To aim this, the main tool used for a reservoir engineer is reservoir simulation. Nowadays reservoir simulations still have some gaps such as the simulation at different scales. Commercial simulators cannot reproduce precisely the reservoir behaviour and the physics at the microscopic scale. If a reservoir simulator could be able to replicate pore scale events, they could have a more realistic representation of the reservoir physics. This thesis tries to emulate drainage in three different 2-D heterogeneous porous media patterns with a porous plate at the production end, which restricts oil flow, but it conducts water; water being the wetting fluid and oil the non-wetting fluid. The porous medium was inserted in an open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) called OpenFOAM capable of making simulations on a micro scale and capable of reproducing pore events such as snap-off, Haines-jumps, disconnected ganglia of oil and the simultaneous ﬁlling of neighboring pores. In this thesis, graphs of the variation in fluid saturations versus time are presented in order to compare drainage process in different porous media.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Flores de Dios Mosqueda, T. (2019). Pore Level Modeling of Immiscible Displacements in Heterogeneous Media (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36802
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/110710
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Schulich School of Engineering	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	reservoir Simulation pore scale pore scale events drainage	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Engineering--Petroleum	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Psychology--Experimental	en_US
dc.title	Pore Level Modeling of Immiscible Displacements in Heterogeneous Media	en_US
dc.type	master thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Engineering – Chemical & Petroleum	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science (MSc)	en_US
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