Mechanism behind Erosive Bursts In Porous Media.

نویسندگان

  • R Jäger
  • M Mendoza
  • H J Herrmann
چکیده

Erosion and deposition during flow through porous media can lead to large erosive bursts that manifest as jumps in permeability and pressure loss. Here we reveal that the cause of these bursts is the reopening of clogged pores when the pressure difference between two opposite sites of the pore surpasses a certain threshold. We perform numerical simulations of flow through porous media and compare our predictions to experimental results, recovering with excellent agreement shape and power-law distribution of pressure loss jumps, and the behavior of the permeability jumps as a function of particle concentration. Furthermore, we find that erosive bursts only occur for pressure gradient thresholds within the range of two critical values, independent of how the flow is driven. Our findings provide a better understanding of sudden sand production in oil wells and breakthrough in filtration.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 119 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017