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Recent advances in spontaneous imbibition with different boundary conditions

Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources, China University of Geosciences, Ministry of Education,  Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Abstract

Spontaneous imbibition plays an important role in many practical processes, such as oil recovery, hydrology, and environmental engineering. The past few years have witnessed a rapid development in the mechanism analysis and industry applications of spontaneous imbibition. In this paper, we focus on boundary conditions of spontaneous imbibition, which has important effects on the imbibition rate and efficiency. Various boundary conditions are first generated using different capillary model and introduced focusing on the fundamental physical mechanisms. Then, the studies of spontaneous imbibition in core scale are reviewed. The feature is discussed and the relative permeability for co- and counter-current imbibition is analyzed. The scaling of imbibition data with different boundary conditions is also presented by combination of experimental and numerical methods. An analytical model to describe spontaneous imbibition is provided at the end.

Keywords

Spontaneous imbibitionboundary conditionrelative permeabilitycapillary back pressure

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Capillarity
Volume 1 Issue 3,
September 2018
Pages 19-26
DOI: 10.26804/capi.2018.03.01
Cite this article:
Meng Q, Cai J. Recent advances in spontaneous imbibition with different boundary conditions. Capillarity, 2018, 1(3): 19-26. https://doi.org/10.26804/capi.2018.03.01

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Received: 17 September 2018
Revised: 07 October 2018
Accepted: 09 October 2018
Published: 15 October 2018
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