Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 14, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en14196432
Keywords
miscible fluids; safman instability; Hele-Shaw
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- Khalifa University
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This study demonstrates that inertia plays a stabilizing role in fingering instability and enhances displacement efficiency at high mobility-viscosity ratios. Additionally, under certain conditions, inertia can slightly reduce finger-splitting and the mixing between the two fluids.
We present a numerical study of viscous fingering occurring during the displacement of a high viscosity fluid by low viscosity fluid in a circular Hele-Shaw cell. This study assumes that the fluids are miscible and considers the effects of inertial forces on fingering morphology, mixing, and displacement efficiency. This study shows that inertia has stabilizing effects on the fingering instability and improves the displacement efficiency at a high log-mobility-viscosity ratio between displacing and displaced fluids. Under certain conditions, inertia slightly reduces the finger-split phenomenon and the mixing between the two fluids.
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