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Insight from analytical solutions for improved simulation of miscible WAG flooding in one dimension

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In this work, the analytical and numerical solutions for modeling miscible gas and water injection into an oil reservoir are presented. Conservation laws with three levels of complexity are considered. Only the most complex model has the correct phase behavior for the example system, which is a multicontact miscible condensing gas drive with simultaneous water and gas injection. Example displacements in which one or both of the simpler models result in accurate simulations in a fraction of the computation time are presented, along with an example in which neither simplified thermodynamic model achieves a truly satisfactory result. A methodology is presented that can be used to establish the accuracy of simplified models in 1-D simulation based on convergence to analytical solutions for the full three-phase system.

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LaForce, T.C. Insight from analytical solutions for improved simulation of miscible WAG flooding in one dimension. Comput Geosci 16, 1007–1020 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-012-9300-8

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