TY - JOUR
TI - Monte Carlo simulation of a two-phase flow in an unsaturated porous media
AU - Xu Peng
AU - Yu Ming-Zhou
AU - Qiu Shu-Xia
AU - Yu Bo-Ming
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2012
VL - 16
IS - 5
SP - 1382
EP - 1385
PT - Article
AB - Relative permeability is a significant transport property which describes the  simultaneous flow of immiscible fluids in porous media. A pore-scale physical  model is developed for the two-phase immiscible flow in an unsaturated porous  media according to the statistically fractal scaling laws of natural porous  media, and a predictive calculation of two-phase relative permeability is  presented by Monte Carlo simulation. The tortuosity is introduced to  characterize the highly irregular and convoluted property of capillary  pathways for fluid flow through a porous medium. The computed relative  permeabilities are compared with empirical formulas and experimental  measurements to validate the current model. The effect of fractal dimensions  and saturation on the relative permeabilities is also discussed