Anomalous diffusion on clusters in steady-state two-phase flow in porous media in two dimensions

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Published 18 September 2009 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation G. Tørå et al 2009 EPL 87 54002 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/87/54002

This article is corrected by 2010 EPL 89 59901

0295-5075/87/5/54002

Abstract

We study diffusion processes on clusters of non-wetting fluid dispersed in a wetting one flowing in a two-dimensional porous medium under steady-state conditions using a numerical model. At the critical saturation and capillary number of 10−5, where the cluster size distribution follows a power law, we find anomalous diffusion characterized by two critical exponents, drw∥=2.35±0.05 in the average flow direction and drw⊥=3.51±0.05 in the perpendicular direction. We determine the conductivity exponents to be μ=1.6±0.2 and μ=1.25±0.1, respectively. The high-frequency scaling exponents of the AC conductivity we find to be η=0.37±0.1 and η=0.36±0.1, respectively.

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