Foam flow in porous media: Concepts, models and challenges

Autor: Khaled Abdalla Elraies, Negar Hadian Nasr, Hamed Hematpur, Syed Mohammad Mahmood
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 53:163-180
ISSN: 1875-5100
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2018.02.017
Popis: This paper aims to elaborate foam concepts and foam flow modeling approaches in porous media. Furthermore, this review summarizes and compares all existing foam models approaches including Mechanistic, Semi-Empirical and Empirical. Finally, it discusses foam models in different reservoir simulators in detail and presents different approaches for obtaining models’ parameters in simulators. The comparison results showed that Emprical models are more suitable for simulation study due to less required paramters and faster calculation; however, these models might not be a appropriate in transient foam flow. Moreover, the challenges about he results of this review provide an valuble insight about foam behaiviour.
Databáze: OpenAIRE