Mathematical study of a petroleum-engineering scheme

Robert Eymard; Raphaèle Herbin; Anthony Michel

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (2010)

  • Volume: 37, Issue: 6, page 937-972
  • ISSN: 0764-583X

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Models of two phase flows in porous media, used in petroleum engineering, lead to a system of two coupled equations with elliptic and parabolic degenerate terms, and two unknowns, the saturation and the pressure. For the purpose of their approximation, a coupled scheme, consisting in a finite volume method together with a phase-by-phase upstream weighting scheme, is used in the industrial setting. This paper presents a mathematical analysis of this coupled scheme, first showing that it satisfies some a priori estimates: the saturation is shown to remain in a fixed interval, and a discrete L2(0,T;H1(Ω)) estimate is proved for both the pressure and a function of the saturation. Thanks to these properties, a subsequence of the sequence of approximate solutions is shown to converge to a weak solution of the continuous equations as the size of the discretization tends to zero.

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Eymard, Robert, Herbin, Raphaèle, and Michel, Anthony. "Mathematical study of a petroleum-engineering scheme." ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis 37.6 (2010): 937-972. <http://eudml.org/doc/194199>.

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abstract = { Models of two phase flows in porous media, used in petroleum engineering, lead to a system of two coupled equations with elliptic and parabolic degenerate terms, and two unknowns, the saturation and the pressure. For the purpose of their approximation, a coupled scheme, consisting in a finite volume method together with a phase-by-phase upstream weighting scheme, is used in the industrial setting. This paper presents a mathematical analysis of this coupled scheme, first showing that it satisfies some a priori estimates: the saturation is shown to remain in a fixed interval, and a discrete L2(0,T;H1(Ω)) estimate is proved for both the pressure and a function of the saturation. Thanks to these properties, a subsequence of the sequence of approximate solutions is shown to converge to a weak solution of the continuous equations as the size of the discretization tends to zero. },
author = {Eymard, Robert, Herbin, Raphaèle, Michel, Anthony},
journal = {ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis},
keywords = {Multiphase flow; Darcy's law; porous media; finite volume scheme.; finite volume scheme},
language = {eng},
month = {3},
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title = {Mathematical study of a petroleum-engineering scheme},
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