Liu, Zhiying;
Yang, Junyu;
Xu, Qianghui;
Shi, Lin;
(2022)
Improved micro-continuum approach for capillary-dominated multiphase flow with reduced spurious velocity.
Physics of Fluids
10.1063/5.0127603.
(In press).
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Abstract
A diverse range of multiphase flow and transport occurs in multiscale porous media. The multiphase micro-continuum Darcy-Brinkmann-Stokes (DBS) model has been developed to simulate the multiphase flow at both the pore and continuum scales via single-field equations. However, the unacceptable spurious velocities produced by the conventional micro-continuum DBS model present challenges to the modeling of capillary-dominated flow dynamics. This study improves the micro-continuum DBS model to mitigate these spurious velocities at the gas-liquid interface and contact-line regions. A hybrid interpolation scheme is proposed to improve the computational accuracy of the interface curvature and reduce the spurious velocity around the gas-liquid interface by 1-2 orders of magnitude. At the porous boundary, the normal to the gas-liquid interface is corrected, and the normal to the solid-fluid interface is smoothed to guarantee the prescribed wettability condition and decrease the spurious velocities at the contact-line region by an order of magnitude. A series of static and dynamic benchmark cases are investigated to demonstrate that the improved DBS model can simulate capillary-dominated multiphase flows with negligible spurious velocities at capillary numbers as low as 10-4 in both simple and complex geometries. The improved DBS model can combine X-ray computed micro-tomography images to perform multiscale simulations of capillary-dominated multiphase flow and understand the effect of sub-resolution porosity on fluid dynamics in naturally multiscale rocks.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Improved micro-continuum approach for capillary-dominated multiphase flow with reduced spurious velocity |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1063/5.0127603 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0127603 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160857 |
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