The present paper discusses the theoretical studies involved in the development of the differential equations which describe the spontaneous imbibition of water by an oil-saturated rock. The basic assumption underlying in the present investigation is that the oil and water form two immiscible liquid phases and the latter represents preferentially wetting phase. The Saturation of injected water ...

We use a pore-scale network model in conjunction with conventional reservoir-scale simulations to investigate wettability variation within an oil/water transition zone. If the initial water saturation within the transition zone is controlled by primary drainage, we predict that initial production behavior is the same regardless of wettability. However, if the initial water saturation has been m...

The dipole moment of a water molecule in liquid water differs from that of an isolated one because each molecule is further polarized by the electric field of its neighbours. In this work a formula for the spatial dependence of the relative permittivity of an electrolyte near a highly charged surface is obtained in which the mutual influence of the water molecules is taken into account by means...

the produced liquid water in cathode catalyst layer (ccl) has significant effect on the operation of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (pemfc). to investigate this effect, the transport of oxygen in ccl in the presence of immiscible liquid water is studied applying a two-dimensional pore scale model. the ccl was reconstructed as an agglomerated system. to explore the wettability effects, diffe...

A two-dimensional along-the-channel CFD (computational fluid dynamic) model, coupled with a twophase flow model of liquid water and gas transport for a PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cell is described. The model considers non-isothermal operation and thus the non-uniform temperature distribution in the cell structure. Water phase-transfer between the vapour, liquid water and dissolved phas...

The knowledge of the area of interfaces between phases is important to understand and quantify many flow and transport processes in porous media. In this work, we apply the interfacial tracer technique to study the dependence of fluid-fluid interfacial area on saturation and wettability. The interfacial area between the wetting and the nonwetting phases (brine and decane) in unconsolidated poro...

Introduction. The gas saturation coefficient is one of the most important parameters for calculating reserves. parameter can be determined by laboratory petrophysical methods applying residual water coefficient. latter, in turn, direct or indirect methods. method used extremely rarely, while are very common - primarily a semipermeable membrane and centrifugation. first considered reliable. Form...

This paper describes a model of local distribution of liquid water (or steam) saturation in a fractured layer. The model, based on the Bernoulli trials as a probability density function of saturation, gives the following relation between the average value of the relative permeability for the water phase, k-, and the arithmetical mean of saturation, S, : where rn is an index representing the non...