Influence of small-scale heterogeneity on upward CO2 plume migration in storage aquifers

B Li, SM Benson - Advances in water resources, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in experimental techniques allow sub-core-scale heterogeneities to
be quantified in a high resolution. Based on the observations of heterogeneity distributions …

A fully-coupled discontinuous Galerkin method for two-phase flow in porous media with discontinuous capillary pressure

P Bastian - Computational Geosciences, 2014 - Springer
In this paper, we formulate and test numerically a fully-coupled discontinuous Galerkin (DG)
method for incompressible two-phase flow with discontinuous capillary pressure. The spatial …

Trust-region based solver for nonlinear transport in heterogeneous porous media

X Wang, HA Tchelepi - Journal of Computational Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
We describe a new nonlinear solver for immiscible two-phase transport in porous media,
where viscous, buoyancy, and capillary forces are significant. The flux (fractional flow) …

Numerical analysis of a robust free energy diminishing finite volume scheme for parabolic equations with gradient structure

C Cancès, C Guichard - Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2017 - Springer
We present a numerical method for approximating the solutions of degenerate parabolic
equations with a formal gradient flow structure. The numerical method we propose …

Nonlinear analysis of multiphase transport in porous media in the presence of viscous, buoyancy, and capillary forces

B Li, HA Tchelepi - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
Nonlinear convergence problems in numerical reservoir simulation can lead to
unacceptably large computational time and are often the main impediment to performing …

Discontinuous Galerkin approximation of two-phase flows in heterogeneous porous media with discontinuous capillary pressures

A Ern, I Mozolevski, L Schuh - Computer methods in applied mechanics …, 2010 - Elsevier
We design and investigate a sequential discontinuous Galerkin method to approximate two-
phase immiscible incompressible flows in heterogeneous porous media with discontinuous …

Finite volume approximation for an immiscible two-phase flow in porous media with discontinuous capillary pressure

K Brenner, C Cancès, D Hilhorst - Computational Geosciences, 2013 - Springer
We consider an immiscible incompressible two-phase flow in a porous medium composed
of two different rocks so that the capillary pressure field is discontinuous at the interface …

Gradient schemes for two‐phase flow in heterogeneous porous media and Richards equation

R Eymard, C Guichard, R Herbin… - ZAMM‐Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The gradient scheme family, which includes the conforming and mixed finite elements as
well as the mimetic mixed hybrid family, is used for the approximation of Richards equation …

Vertex approximate gradient scheme for hybrid dimensional two-phase Darcy flows in fractured porous media

K Brenner, M Groza, C Guichard… - … Modelling and Numerical …, 2015 - esaim-m2an.org
This paper presents a finite volume discretization of two-phase Darcy flows in discrete
fracture networks taking into account the mass exchange between the matrix and the …

Modeling two-phase flow of immiscible fluids in porous media: Buckley-Leverett theory with explicit coupling terms

S Pasquier, M Quintard, Y Davit - Physical Review Fluids, 2017 - APS
Continuum models that describe two-phase flow of immiscible fluids in porous media often
treat momentum exchange between the two phases by simply generalizing the single-phase …