O problema de Riemann para um modelo matemático de escoamento trifásico com dados de injeção do tipo água-gás e dados de produção do tipo gás-óleo.

Abstract

In this work we describe a Riemann solution for a system of two conservation laws modeling a three-phase flow in a porous media. We consider the case where a petroleum reservoir is initially filled with an arbitrary gas/oil mixture to be displaced by the injection of a gas/water mixture, also arbitrary. By using a combination of analytical and computational methods we obtain the geometry of the so called wave curves under the viscous profile entropy condition, with the viscosity matrix as the identity. We determine all wave sequences describing the flow for each pair of injection andproductionmixtures,representingtheRiemanndata. Weshowthatforproduction mixture data close to pure oil, or pure gas, only two waves are present in the flow independentlyontheinjectionmixture. Nevertheless, forproductiondatarepresenting a more proportional gas/oil mixture we show the existence of a injection data range for which three waves are present in the flow, one of them being a transitional shock wave.