Electronic Resource
New York, NY
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Physics of Fluids
4 (1992), S. 1099-1101
ISSN:
1089-7666
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Viscous fingering in miscible displacements in the presence of permeability heterogeneities is studied using two-dimensional simulations. The heterogeneities are modeled as stationary random functions of space with finite correlation scale. Both the variance and scale of the heterogeneities are varied over modest ranges. It is found that the fingered zone grows linearly in time in a fashion analogous to that found in homogeneous media by Tan and Homsy [Phys. Fluids 31, 1330 (1988)], indicating a close coupling between viscous fingering on the one hand and flow through preferentially more permeable paths on the other. The growth rate of the mixing zone increases monotonically with the variance of the heterogeneity, as expected, but shows a maximum as the correlation scale is varied. The latter is explained as a "resonance'' between the natural scale of fingers in homogeneous media and the correlation scale.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.858227
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