Abdallah Kamel Mohamed Ahmed Elhamady
“MITIGATION OF SPURIOUS CURRENTS IN MULTIPHASE FLOW SIMULATION AT LOW CAPILLARY NUMBERS”.
Rel. Dario Viberti, Filippo Panini. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Petroleum And Mining Engineering (Ingegneria Del Petrolio E Mineraria), 2022
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Abstract
One of the most challenging issues in computational modelling of multiphase flow is spurious currents. Spurious currents arise by the errors in the interface curvature computations between two fluids in the computational domain. Being predominant in porous media at small capillary numbers, they might cause numerical instabilities and compromise the quality of the results in terms of fluid velocity and capillary pressure within the numerical simulation. In this work, as an attempt to fix this issue, we investigate and implement the solutions proposed in the literature to develop a set of optimal computational settings that mitigate their impact. First, we provide numerical simulations for the classical case of a circular stationary droplet of oil relaxing from an initial square shape surrounded by water using the open-source finite-volume computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code OpenFOAM.
The investigation is conducted setting the interfacial compression coefficient (Cα) equal to zero (no interface compression) and higher than zero
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