Numerical modeling of reactive polymer flow in porous media

Abstract This paper presents a new numerical model of reactive polymer flow in heterogeneous porous media. A moment representation of the log–normal polymer molecular weight distribution is used to model polymer as a multi-component species. Three leading moments are used to simulate the polymer transport and reaction processes in a two-dimensional porous medium. The 2D, multi-phase polymer flow model is based on a mass-transport equation for multi-component species and is coupled with kinetic models of the gelation process using an operator splitting scheme. The sensitivity of various parameters and constitutive equations is presented.

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