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Pore-Scale Study of the Non-Linear Mixing of Fluids with Viscous Fingering in Anisotropic Porous Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2015

Gaojie Liu  and
Zhaoli Guo
Gaojie Liu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China
Zhaoli Guo*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China
*
*Corresponding author. Email addresses: zlguo@hust.edu.cn (Z. Guo), liugj.hust@gmail.com (G. Liu)
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Abstract

Mixing processes of miscible viscous fluids in anisotropic porous media are studied through a lattice Boltzmann method in this paper. The results show that fluid mixing can be enhanced by the disorder and interfaces induced by viscous fingers. Meanwhile, the permeability anisotropy affects the developments of viscous fingers and the subsequent mixing behaviors significantly. Specifically, as the streamwise (longitudinal) permeability is larger than the spanwise (transverse) one, the mixing process is faster and stronger than that in the contrary case. Furthermore, the anisotropy can lead to different behaviors of the dissipation rates in streamwise and spanwise directions. Generally, the dissipation rate is dominated by the transverse concentration gradients when the longitudinal permeability is higher than the transverse one; on the contrary, as the transverse permeability is higher than the longitudinal one, the contributions to the dissipation rate from longitudinal and transverse concentration gradients are both significant.

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47.51.+a47.20.Gv47.56.+rMixingpore-scaleanisotropy mediascalar dissipation ratelattice Boltzmann method
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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , April 2015 , pp. 1019 - 1036
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Copyright © Global-Science Press 2015 

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