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Vestnik Samarskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Estestvenno-Nauchnaya Seriya, 2014 Issue 10(121), Pages 116–129 (Mi vsgu456)

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Mechanics

Waterflooding front moving task in dual periodical area: piston-like displacement case

V. I. Astafieva, A. E. Kasatkinb

a Samara State Technical University, Samara, 443100, Russian Federation
b Samara State University, Samara, 443011, Russian Federation

Abstract: Water-oil contact moving task has a high significance in a waterflooding theory: it’s possible to improve oil recovering characteristics due to prediction of flow features for both liquids – oil and water displaced it. There is the simplest mathematical pattern for conjoint oil-water flow presenting: it is called “versicolor” liquids model and it suggests making oil and water physically identical to simplify solving process for water-oil contact moving task. However, another pattern was used in research described in this paper: it is called pistonlike displacement model and it supposes that oil and water physical characteristics, for example, viscosities, may be different. As for the oil-keeping reservoir pattern used in this research it was presented as homogeneous and infinity, with fixed thickness: furthermore its surface was covered by dual periodical lattice included production and injection wells in its cells.

Keywords: waterflooding, piston-like displacement of oil by water, oil-water boundary, flood front, tracing task, singular integral equation, Weierstrass dzetta-function, areal sweep efficiency, waterbreak time.

UDC: 532.546

Received: 18.01.2014



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