Huan Mao
Department of Energy and Power Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266555
Liang Gong
Department of Energy and Power Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), 66 West
Changjiang Rd. Huangdao District, Qingdao 266580, PR. China
Minghai Xu
Department of Energy and Power Engineering, College of Pipeline and Civil Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Chang Jiang Road, Qingdao, China 266580
Shanbo Huang
Department of Energy and Power Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266555
John C. Chai
Department of Engineering and Technology, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK; The Petroleum Institute, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
In this article, the LBM with the pseudo-potential model is used to study the fingering
characteristics during the immiscible displacement process in a partial porous channel. A two-phase
flow in a square cavity and a single channel two-phase displacement were used to validate the
numerical model. The porous part of the channel is reconstructed using the quartet structure generation
set (QSGS) method. The viscosity ratio between the displaced and displacing fluids, the interfacial
interaction force, the surface wettability and the porosity of the porous media were studied in this
article. The results show that fingering increases with increasing the viscosity ratio, fluid-fluid
interaction force and fluid-solid interaction force. This leads to less efficient displacement process with
more un-displaced fluid inside the porous region. It was also observed that more displaced fluid
remains trapped inside the porous region when the porosity decreases.