COMSOL Implementation for Upscaling of Two-Phase Immiscible Flows in Communicating Layered Reservoirs

X. Zhang, A. Shapiro, and E.H. Stenby
Center for Energy Resources Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Published in 2010

Waterflooding is widely used in secondary oil recovery. The physics is described by the model of two-phase flow in porous media. The aim of the present work is to implement this model in COMSOL Multiphysics and to simulate the process of waterflooding. It is analyzed in two dimensions. We use layered reservoir in our study. The numerical implementation is validated, comparing with analytical solution based on asymptotic derivation, in terms of average saturation profile, pseudo-fractional flow and oil revcoery rate.