Theory of Fluid Flows Through Natural Rocks / Edition 1

by G.I. Barenblatt, V.M. Entov, V.M Ryzhik

Overview

Mechanics, the oldest branch of physics, to this day remains the basis for modern technology. This is especially evident with regard to the oil and gas industry. Almost all of the technological processes in these branches of industry, from the drilling of wells to the transporting of oil and gas products via pipelines, are mechanical in their nature. The processes of the development of oil and gas deposits are of primary importance in the whole technological chain of oil and gas extraction from the rocks and their transportation to the customer. The use of scientific methods for improving technology is a long-established tradition of oil and gas industry. For the Western reader, it is enough to mention the fundamental treatises by the outstanding American research scientist and engineer M. Muskat (1937, 1949) as well as the excellent books of Scheidegger (1960) and Collins (1961) which combine practical goals with profound theoretical analysis. The initiators of the application of mechanics for solving problems of the oil and gas industry in the U.S.S.R. were V.G. Shukhov (1981) and LS. Leibenzon (1934, 1947, 1953, 1955) whose works constitute admirable examples of Soviet technical thought. During recent times, the magnitude of oil and gas extraction has increased immensely and many reservoirs with complicated physical and geological properties have, therefore, entered into the development. The fundamental problem of enhancing oil and gas recovery from rocks has been intensively and deeply analyzed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048140428
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Series:	Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media , #3
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1990
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Basic Physical Concepts and Models of Subterranean Fluid Mechanics.- 2. Classical Linear Models of the Flow of a Homogeneous Fluid Through Porous Media.- 3. Classical Nonlinear Models of Homogeneous Fluid Flow Through Porous Media.- 4. Nonclassical Models of the Flow of Homogeneous Fluids.- 5. Two-Phase Flow and Water-Oil Displacement.- 6. Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics of Enhanced Oil Recovery.- References.

Editorial Reviews

An expanded and revised edition of the 1984 Russian work. The authors provide a systematic treatment of the mathematical theory of fluid flows in natural reservoirs. Chapters deal with basic concepts and classical models, and new concepts and current trends, such as the theories for the steady and unsteady flow of non-Newtonian fluid, the theory of two-phase flow, and physico-chemical hydrodynamics of porous media. Some of the material has not been presented before in the Western literature. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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