Application of CFD to evaluate the pore morphology effect on nanofluid flooding for enhanced oil recovery

Reza Gharibshahi, Arezou Jafari, Ali Haghtalab, Mohammad Saber Karambeigi

RSC Advances · 2015 · 62 citations · 31 references

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Abstract

In this study a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method has been developed to simulate the effect of pore morphology and its distribution in a 2D micromodel on the enhanced oil recovery factor of nanofluid flooding.

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