scholarly journals Temperature gradient induced double stabilization of the evaporation front within a drying porous medium

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Vorhauer ◽  
E. Tsotsas ◽  
M. Prat
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Evaporation Front

Two-Phase Multicomponent Diffusion and Convection for Reservoir Initialization

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (05) ◽  
pp. 530-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadi Nasrabadi ◽  
Kassem Ghorayeb ◽  
Abbas Firoozabadi
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Natural Convection ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Thermal Diffusion ◽  
Multicomponent Diffusion ◽  
Compositional Variation ◽  
Horizontal Temperature Gradient ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Thermogravitational Column

Summary We present formulation and numerical solution of two-phase multicomponent diffusion and natural convection in porous media. Thermal diffusion, pressure diffusion, and molecular diffusion are included in the diffusion expression from thermodynamics of irreversible processes. The formulation and the numerical solution are used to perform initialization in a 2D cross section. We use both homogeneous and layered media without and with anisotropy in our calculations. Numerical examples for a binary mixture of C1/C3 and a multicomponent reservoir fluid are presented. Results show a strong effect of natural convection in species distribution. Results also show that there are at least two main rotating cells at steady state: one in the gas cap, and one in the oil column. Introduction Proper initialization is an important aspect of reliable reservoir simulations. The use of the Gibbs segregation condition generally cannot provide reliable initialization in hydrocarbon reservoirs. This is caused, in part, by the effect of thermal diffusion (caused by the geothermal temperature gradient), which cannot be neglected in some cases; thermal diffusion might be the main phenomenon affecting compositional variation in hydrocarbon reservoirs, especially for near-critical gas/condensate reservoirs (Ghorayeb et al. 2003). Generally, temperature increases with increasing burial depth because heat flows from the Earth's interior toward the surface. The temperature profile, or geothermal gradient, is related to the thermal conductivity of a body of rock and the heat flux. Thermal conductivity is not necessarily uniform because it depends on the mineralogical composition of the rock, the porosity, and the presence of water or gas. Therefore, differences in thermal conductivity between adjacent lithologies can result in a horizontal temperature gradient. Horizontal temperature gradients in some offshore fields can be observed because of a constant water temperature (approximately 4°C) in different depths in the seabed floor. The horizontal temperature gradient causes natural convection that might have a significant effect on species distribution (Firoozabadi 1999). The combined effects of diffusion (pressure, thermal, and molecular) and natural convection on compositional variation in multicomponent mixtures in porous media have been investigated for single-phase systems (Riley and Firoozabadi 1998; Ghorayeb and Firoozabadi 2000a).The results from these references show the importance of natural convection, which, in some cases, overrides diffusion and results in a uniform composition. Natural convection also can result in increased horizontal compositional variation, an effect similar to that in a thermogravitational column (Ghorayeb and Firoozabadi 2001; Nasrabadi et al. 2006). The combined effect of convection and diffusion on species separation has been the subject of many experimental studies. Separation in a thermogravitational column with both effects has been measured widely (Schott 1973; Costeseque 1982; El Mataaoui 1986). The thermogravitational column consists of two isothermal vertical plates with different temperatures separated by a narrow space. The space can be either without a porous medium or filled with a porous medium. The thermal diffusion, in a binary mixture, causes one component to segregate to the hot plate and the other to the cold plate. Because of the density gradient caused by temperature and concentration gradients, convection flow occurs and creates a concentration difference between the top and bottom of the column. Analytical and numerical models have been presented to analyze the experimental results (Lorenz and Emery 1959; Jamet et al. 1992; Nasrabadi et al. 2006). The experimental and theoretical studies show that the composition difference between the top and bottom of the column increases with permeability until an optimum permeability is reached. Then, the composition difference declines as permeability increases. The process in a thermogravitational column shows the significance of the convection from a horizontal temperature gradient.

Three-dimensional absolute and convective instabilities at the onset of convection in a porous medium with inclined temperature gradient and vertical throughflow

2009 ◽  
Vol 641 ◽  
pp. 475-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEONID BREVDO
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Rayleigh Number ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Onset Of Convection ◽  
Convective Instabilities ◽  
Homogeneous Porous Medium ◽  
Vertical Throughflow ◽  
Speed Of Propagation ◽  
Inclined Temperature Gradient

By using the mathematical formalism of absolute and convective instabilities, we study in this work the nature of unstable three-dimensional localized disturbances at the onset of convection in a flow in a saturated homogeneous porous medium with inclined temperature gradient and vertical throughflow. It is shown that for marginally supercritical values of the vertical Rayleigh numberRvthe destabilization has the character of absolute instability in all the cases in which the horizontal Rayleigh numberRhis zero or the Péclet numberQvis zero. In all the cases in whichRhandQvare both different from zero, at the onset of convection the instability is convective. In the latter cases, the growing emerging disturbance has locally the structure of a non-oscillatory longitudinal roll, and its group velocity points in the direction opposite the direction of the applied horizontal temperature gradient, i.e. parallel to the axis of the roll. The speed of propagation of the unstable wavepacket increases withQvand generally increases withRh.

POROUS PENETRATIVE CONVECTION WITH A SALT FIELD AND INTERNAL HEAT SOURCE

1992 ◽  
Vol 02 (04) ◽  
pp. 407-421
Author(s):  
LORNA RICHARDSON
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Nonlinear Stability ◽  
Internal Heat ◽  
Internal Heat Source ◽  
Penetrative Convection ◽  
Weighted Energy ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Unconditional Nonlinear Stability

We investigate the stability of convection in a porous medium containing a heat source in which a destabilizing salt field and stabilizing temperature gradient are present. Both conditional and unconditional nonlinear stability thresholds are calculated and we note that RaE(conditional)>RaE(unconditional). The unconditional nonlinear analysis requires the use of a “weighted” energy.

scholarly journals Thermal consolidation of porous medium with a rheological kelvin–voigt skeleton

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Bartlewska-Urban ◽  
Tomasz Strzelecki
Keyword(s):  
Porous Medium ◽  
Temperature Gradient ◽  
Porous Plate ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Vertical Load ◽  
Consolidation Process ◽  
Biot Model ◽  
Thermal Consolidation ◽  
Deformation Tests

Abstract This study presents calculations results of thermal consolidation process of the porous medium with the rheological Kelvin-Voigt skeleton, obtained numerically with the use of Flex.PDE software. The investigated calculation scheme consisted of the porous column filled with a liquid. The vertical load was applied to the top surface of the column through a porous plate allowing the free flow of liquid through this surface. Numerical solution is based on compression of the sample at appropriately defined boundary conditions. The aim of this study was to describe the influence of external load and temperature gradient on the deformation tests progress at different values of three parameters: λ, rs and cv. The results obtained, in the context of further research, can also be used for the determination of the influence of other parameters of the state and model parameters on the process of thermo poroelasticity of Biot model with rheological skeleton.

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