Numerical investigation of micellar-polymer displacement of oil from layered strata (Q800790)

A mathematical model developed earlier [the authors, \textit{M. L. Surguchev} and \textit{V. A. Shevtsov}, Mathematical simulation of micellar- polymer flooding, Sov. Phys. Dokl. 25, 901-904 (1980)] is used to make a numerical investigation of the mechanism and wave dynamics of a process in layered strata consisting of hydrodynamically connected layers with different flow parameters. A study is made of a micellar solution with an exterior hydrocarbon phase, i.e., a solution that in contact with the stratal fluids forms a two-phase structure: a hydrocarbon fluid (micellar solution and stratal oil) and water with polymer admixture. The concentration of salts in the stratum is assumed to be constant.