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A Dynamic Network Simulator for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media

@article{Sinha2019ADN,
  title={A Dynamic Network Simulator for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media},
  author={Santanu Sinha and Magnus Aa. Gjennestad and Morten Vassvik and Alex Hansen},
  journal={arXiv: Fluid Dynamics},
  year={2019}
}
We present in detail a set of algorithms to carry out fluid displacements in a dynamic pore-network model of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media. The algorithms are general and applicable to regular and irregular pore networks in two and three dimensions with different boundary conditions. Implementing these sets of algorithms, we describe a dynamic pore-network model and reproduce some of the fundamental properties of both the transient and steady-state two-phase flow. During drainage… 
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