Chin. Phys. Lett.  1995, Vol. 12 Issue (12): 739-742    DOI:
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Fractal Nature of Capillary and Viscous Fingering in Two-Dimensional Porous Media
TIAN Juping;YU Boming;YAO Kailun*
Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074 *International Center for Material Physics, Academia Sinica, Shenyang 110015 *and Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074
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TIAN Juping, YU Boming, YAO Kailun 1995 Chin. Phys. Lett. 12 739-742
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Abstract A computer model of capillary and viscous fingering in a porous media is presented, which treats the media as a square lattice connected with randomly chosen radius. The fractal properties of the model are studied for shell-shell aggregation method by Monte Carlo simulation. The simulation results show that the dimension D increases along with increasing of M and decreasing of μ, where M and μ are the ratios of the viscosity of the two fluids and the most probable radius of the throat in porous media respectively. It is found that there exist four regions for fluid.
Keywords: 47.55.Mh      05.40.+j      47.55.Kf     
Published: 01 December 1995
PACS:  47.55.Mh  
  05.40.+j  
  47.55.Kf (Particle-laden flows)  
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