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Heat Transfer and Mathematical Modeling of Multi-Phase Flow through Porous Media

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J1: Heat and Mass Transfer".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 7037

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Dr. Abdelraheem Mahmoud Aly

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Department of Mathematics, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia
Interests: multi-phase flow; fluid-structure interaction; fluid flow through porous media; mesh/meshfree numerical methods; parallel implementation of particle-based methods; heat and mass transfer; nanofluid

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to submit your original research or overview papers to this Special Issue on “Heat Transfer and Mathematical Modeling of Multi-Phase Flow through Porous Media” in Energies.

Many engineering and environmental sciences research topics concentrate on combining flow, heat transfer, and thermodynamics aspects. For example, multi-phase flows, phase change, combustion, transient microscale, fluid stability, and thermal energy systems are all areas of interest in computational fluid dynamics.

Massive works are still necessary for the further improvements of modeling and calculation algorithms of the numerical modeling and simulation of multi-phase flow through porous media. Thus, enhancements in modeling and numerical solutions of multi-phase flow through porous media in complex geometries are still under progress and require extensive studies. Multi-physics simulations are needed to fully understand the convection flows of the multi-phase flow through porous media. In addition, innovative, enhanced techniques for nanoparticle injection, including/excluding the use of a magnetic field, are still challenging in mathematical modeling and numerical simulations. Additionally, the accuracy and efficiency of modeling and robust simulation are still the subjects of research activities. The proposed Special Issue highlights the advanced developments of modeling and simulation of multi-phase flow through porous media. We invite researchers to contribute their new thoughts and recent advances to this Special Issue with original research and review articles. The enhancement of modeling capabilities and numerical algorithms related to multi-phase flow is still highly needed.

This Special Issue has been proposed to highlight recent advancements in modeling and simulation of multi-phase flows in porous media. We invite researchers to submit original research and review papers in the context of new ideas and current research to this Special Issue.

Potential topics mainly include (but are not limited to):

  • Recent trends in numerical methods.
  • Computer simulations of multi-phase flows in porous media.
  • Advances in computer simulations of nanofluid flows.
  • Advances in numerical modeling and simulation of multi-phase flows.
  • Mesh/meshless numerical methods for fluid flow in porous media.
  • Recent models of nanofluid enhancements.
  • Industrial uses of nanofluids.
  • Nanofluid flow in porous media.
  • Computer simulations of fluid–structure interactions.
  • Recently developed numerical methods.
  • New numerical algorithms for heat transfer in complex geometries.
  • Heat and mass transfer.
  • Modeling and simulation of thermofluid systems.
  • Technical fluid flows and combustion.
  • Thermal multi-phase, multi-component flows.
  • Physical/mathematical aspects of multi-phase flows.
  • Multiscale modeling of multi-phase flows.

Dr. Abdelraheem Mahmoud Aly
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Multi-phase flow
  • Porous media
  • Heat transfer
  • Mass transfer
  • Nanofluid
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Numerical analysis
  • Meshfree methods
  • Hybrid nanofluids.

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Article
Simulation of Polymer Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery in Ghawar Field
by Maaike Berger, Francesco Picchioni and Pablo Druetta
Energies 2022, 15(19), 7232; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15197232 - 1 Oct 2022
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This paper presents a 2D model of the Ghawar field and investigates the flow behavior in the field during secondary and tertiary recoveries using a simplified well scheme. For the latter, the focus is on chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), using polymer solutions. [...] Read more.
This paper presents a 2D model of the Ghawar field and investigates the flow behavior in the field during secondary and tertiary recoveries using a simplified well scheme. For the latter, the focus is on chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), using polymer solutions. The difference in efficiency between secondary and tertiary recovery and the influence of factors such as degradation are analyzed and presented. Furthermore, the influence of oil viscosity on the recovery factor is investigated as well as the efficiency of the well placement of the model studied. In order to do this, a combined shear-thinning/-thickening model, the Unified Viscosity Model (UVM), is used. COMSOL Multiphysics is used in order to study the model, combining the fluid flow and mass transfer in one study, showing the interdependence of both physics transport phenomena. The results show how the influence of the polymer properties and the rock formation affect the recovery behavior. The particle tracing study allows us to determine the percentage of the chemical agent recovered in the producing wells. This paper shows how EOR agents works coupled with advanced numerical models in real-scale fields. Full article
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Heat Transfer Enhancement through Thermodynamical Activity of H2O/Clay Nanofluid Flow over an Infinite Upright Plate with Caputo Fractional-Order Derivative
by J. Kayalvizhi, A. G. Vijaya Kumar, Hakan F. Öztop, Ndolane Sene and Nidal H. Abu-Hamdeh
Energies 2022, 15(16), 6082; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15166082 - 22 Aug 2022
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This paper presents a modelling of nanofluid flow using Caputo fractional derivatives through conservative equations of mass and momentum, and provides an exact solution on un-steady convective flow over a vertical plate with the mass diffusion effect, in association with an energy equation. [...] Read more.
This paper presents a modelling of nanofluid flow using Caputo fractional derivatives through conservative equations of mass and momentum, and provides an exact solution on un-steady convective flow over a vertical plate with the mass diffusion effect, in association with an energy equation. H2O is the base liquid with clay nanoparticles floating in it in a uniform way. Boussinessq’s approach is used in the momentum equation for pressure gradient. The non-dimensional fluid temperature, species concentration and fluid transport are derived together with Jacob Fourier sine and Laplace transform techniques in terms of exponential decay function, and the inverse is computed further in terms of the Mittag-Leffler function. The impact of various physical quantities is interpreted with the fractional order of the Caputo derivatives. The obtained temperature, transport and species concentration profiles show behaviors for 0 < α < 1, where α is the fractional parameter. The rate of heat and mass transfer coefficients for the significance of physical quantities of interest are also obtained and presented through graphs. The impact of the nanoparticle volume fraction on the flow field is observed. At larger values of the fractional parameter, the velocity, temperature, and concentration distributions grow more quickly. In addition to that, it is found the concentration profiles behave in the opposite way for the volume fraction of nanofluids. Full article
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Natural Convection over Two Superellipse Shapes with a Porous Cavity Populated by Nanofluid
by Noura Alsedais
Energies 2021, 14(21), 6952; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14216952 - 22 Oct 2021
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The influences of superellipse shapes on natural convection in a horizontally subdivided non-Darcy porous cavity populated by Cu-water nanofluid are inspected in this paper. The impacts of the inner geometries (n=0.5,1,1.5,4), Rayleigh [...] Read more.
The influences of superellipse shapes on natural convection in a horizontally subdivided non-Darcy porous cavity populated by Cu-water nanofluid are inspected in this paper. The impacts of the inner geometries (n=0.5,1,1.5,4), Rayleigh number (103≤Ra≤106), Darcy number (10−5≤Da≤10−2), porosity (0.2≤ϵ≤0.8), and solid volume fraction (0.01≤∅≤0.05) on nanofluid heat transport and streamlines were examined. The hot superellipse shapes were placed in the cavity’s bottom and top, while the adiabatic boundaries on the flat walls of the cavity were considered. The governing equations were numerically solved using the finite volume method (FVM). It was found that the movement of the nanofluid upsurged as Ra boosted. The temperature distributions in the cavity’s core had an inverse relationship with increasing Rayleigh number. An extra porous resistance at lower Darcy numbers limited the nanofluid’s movement within the porous layers. The mean Nusselt number decreased as the porous resistance increased (Da≤10−4). The flow and temperature were strongly affected as the shape of the inner superellipse grew larger. Full article
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