Description

C0 – Fluid mechanics basics
0.1 – Naviers-Stocke equation
0.2 – Convection / Diffusion and Reynold number
0.3 – Surfactants
1 – Surface tension effect
1.1 – Origin of surface tension
1.2 – Laplace law
1.3 – Surfactants
1.4 – Influence of temperature
2 – Poiseuille flow
3 – Flow in porous media
3.1 – Introduction
3.2 – Physical parameters
3.3 – Darcy flow
3.4 – Simple models of porous media
3.5 – Caracterisation technics
3.6 – Non-miscible flows in porous media
4 – Fundamentals of reservoir fluid flow
4.1 – Description of diffusion
4.2 – Fluid flow equations (un/steady state flows)
4.3 – Constant pressure solution (boundary condition)
4.4 – Constant flow solution (boundary condition)
4.5 – Principle of superposition
5 – Thermodynamics of reservoirs
6 – Computer model of fluid flow
 

• Practical works (flow through particle layers, fluidised bedformation, viscosity, surface tension, adsorption, pressure drop in pipes)

Compétences visées

This course has for goal to open the mind of petroleum / geophysics students to a more physical and less ingineering approach of fluid flow in porous media such as soils. It is mainly focused on understanding.

Modalités d'organisation et de suivi

This teaching unit is dedicated to "geosciences engineering" and "oil&gas engineering" curricula
It consists in 24 hrs lecture; 15 hrs tutorials (2 groups of 40 students max); 9 hrs practical work (4 groups of 20 students max)

Bibliographie

1. Hydrodynamics from Hulin Dulong and Petit
2. Porous media from Panfilov