Modelagem computacional do escoamento bifásico em um meio poroso aquecido por ondas eletromagnéticas

Abstract

In this work we are interested in studying, through computational simulations, if the electromagnetic heating is able to improve the displacement of the oil by water. In this direction, we rely on the results obtained by the TU Delft team from the Netherlands, which developed laboratory experiments that demonstrated the temperature distribution in a porous medium where the oil is being displaced by the injection of water generated by electromagnetic heating. For this, we define the mathematical model that governs the problem in question governed by partial differential equations of the laws of conservation of mass and energy. Thus, starting from the characterization of the continuum and extending Darcy’s law to the multiphase case, by introducing the concept of relative permeabilities of fluids, we derive a coupled system of partial differential equations with variable coefficients and non-linear terms formulated as a function of the velocity of Darcy for two-phase flow (water, oil) heated by electromagnetic waves. The mathematical model is discretized using the finite difference method in time and space and the Splitting technique. In this way we divide the system of partial differential equations into two subsystems. The first subsystem consists of solving the diffusive and reactive part and the second subsystem aims to solve the convective term. The numerical method developed is validated by computational simulations aimed at the comparison with the results obtained experimentally and with semi-analytical solutions, for this problem, which were derived by the Duhamel principle method. In addition, the proposed method when applied to the general case of simulation of the biphasic flow with electromagnetic heating demonstrated a gain of 1.67%, when compared to the non-heating method.