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Pore-Scale Modeling of CO2 Injection Using Density Functional Hydrodynamics

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The pore-scale numerical modeling of CO2 injection into natural rock saturated with oil–water mixture was performed using the density functional hydrodynamics approach. The detailed 3D digital model of the sandstone core sample contained over 7 billion cells, which allowed us to perform analysis of oil displacement efficiency at different scales. Utilization of large-size detailed numerical models make it possible to characterize, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the processes at pore scale to the level of detail not achievable on smaller models. The obtained results indicate large-scale effects even on relatively heterogeneous core indicating possible need for multiscale hierarchical models even in heterogeneous cases. This fact imposes the demand for scalability performance on both the software and hardware used in such simulations, as well as the need for adequate modeling upscaling methods.

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  • The density functional hydrodynamics framework for CO2 flood simulation on pore scale is presented

  • Three-phase density functional hydrodynamics simulation was carried out on a record-size digital rock model of 9000 × 900 × 900 voxels corresponding to a natural sandstone core sample

  • Although the sandstone is homogeneous, the local displacement efficiencies measured on 1.2 mm size windows change from as low as 0.59 to as high as 0.79 indicating large-scale phenomena at work

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Dinariev, O., Evseev, N., Sidorenkov, A. et al. Pore-Scale Modeling of CO2 Injection Using Density Functional Hydrodynamics. Transp Porous Med 151, 753–771 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-024-02064-1

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