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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 73, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.026306
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We report numerical studies of the cluster development of two-phase flow in a steady-state environment of porous media. This is done by including biperiodic boundary conditions in a two-dimensional flow simulator. Initial transients of wetting and nonwetting phases that evolve before steady state has occurred, undergo a crossover where every initial pattern is broken up. For flow dominated by capillary effects with capillary numbers in order of 10(-5), we find that around a critical saturation of nonwetting fluid the nonwetting clusters of size s have a power-law distribution n(s)similar to s(-tau) with the exponent tau=1.92 +/- 0.04 for large clusters. This is a lower value than the result for ordinary percolation. We also present scaling relation and time evolution of the structure and global pressure.
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