Adaptive Time-Splitting Scheme for Nanoparticles Transport with Two-Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media

Mohamed F. El-Amin*, Jisheng Kou, Shuyu Sun

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Abstract

In this work, we introduce an efficient scheme using an adaptive time-splitting method to simulate nanoparticles transport associated with a two-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media. The capillary pressure is linearized in terms of saturation to couple the pressure and saturation equations. The governing equations are solved using an IMplicit Pressure Explicit Saturation-IMplicit Concentration (IMPES-IMC) scheme. The spatial discretization has been done using the cell-centered finite difference (CCFD) method. The interval of time has been divided into three levels, the pressure level, the saturation level, and the concentrations level, which can reduce the computational cost. The time step-sizes at different levels are adaptive iteratively by satisfying the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL<1) condition. The results illustrates the efficiency of the numerical scheme. A numerical example of a highly heterogeneous porous medium has been introduced. Moreover, the adaptive time step-sizes are shown in graphs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputational Science – ICCS 2018 - 18th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsJack Dongarra, Haohuan Fu, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Michael Harold Lees, Peter M. Sloot, Yong Shi, Yingjie Tian
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages366-378
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319937120
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018 - Wuxi, China
Duration: Jun 11 2018Jun 13 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10862 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuxi
Period06/11/1806/13/18

Keywords

  • CFL
  • IMPES
  • Porous media
  • Time-splitting
  • Two-phase flow

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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