N. Rastegaev | Searcharxiv

arXiv2022

Optimal polymer slugs injection profiles

The graded viscosity banks technology (tapering) for polymer flooding is studied for several different models of mixing zones behavior. Depending on the viscosity function the limiting polymer injection profile is rigorously derived for the transverse flow equilibrium model, for the Koval model and for the Todd-Longstaff model. The potential gain in the polymer quantity compared to the profile with a finite number of slugs is numerically estimated.

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arXiv2021

Impact of dissipation ratio on vanishing viscosity solutions of the Riemann problem for chemical flooding model

The solutions for a Riemann problem arising in chemical flooding models are studied using vanishing viscosity as an admissibility criterion. We show that when the flow function depends non-monotonically on the concentration of chemicals, non-classical undercompressive shocks appear. The monotonic dependence of the shock velocity on the ratio of dissipative coefficients is proven. For that purpose we provide the classification of the phase portraits for the travelling wave dynamical systems and analyze the saddle-saddle connections.

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