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This article describes a hydrodynamic model of collaborative fluids (oil, water) flow in porous media for enhanced oil recovery, which takes into account the influence of temperature, polymer and surfactant concentration changes on water and oil viscosity. For the mathematical description of oil displacement process by polymer and surfactant injection in a porous medium, we used the balance equations for the oil and water phase, the transport equation of the polymer/surfactant/salt and heat transfer equation. Also, consider the change of permeability for an aqueous phase, depending on the polymer adsorption and residual resistance factor. Results of the numerical investigation on three-dimensional domain are presented in this article and distributions of pressure, saturation, concentrations of polymer/surfactant/salt and temperature are determined. The results of polymer/surfactant flooding are verified by comparing with the results obtained from ECLIPSE 100 (Black Oil). The aim of this work is to study the mathematical model of non-isothermal oil displacement by polymer/surfactant flooding, and to show the efficiency of the combined method for oil-recovery.
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Danaev, N., Akhmed-Zaki, D., Mukhambetzhanov, S., Imankulov, T. (2015). Mathematical Modelling of Oil Recovery by Polymer/Surfactant Flooding. In: Danaev, N., Shokin, Y., Darkhan, AZ. (eds) Mathematical Modeling of Technological Processes. CITech 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25058-8_1
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