Polymer Floods: A Case Study of Nonlinear Wave Analysis and of Instability Control in Tertiary Oil Recovery

DOI10.1137/0148018zbMath0641.76093OpenAlexW2158611821MaRDI QIDQ3782986

Oliver A. McBryan, Brent Lindquist, Prabir K. Daripa, James G. Glimm

Publication date: 1988

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/2f53163e03f9a3c8dfa45a4d7879c308eac4fb9d

zbMATH Keywords

instabilityoil recoveryoil reservoir simulationfingering modenonlinear transferPolymer floodingpolymer-water interfacetracer flooding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65M99)

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