TITLE:
Computational Modeling and Dynamics of the Oil and Water Flow Using the Galerkin Approximation
AUTHORS:
Ferdusee Akter, Ujjwal Kumar Deb
KEYWORDS:
Two-phase Flow, CFD, Galerkin Method, FEM, Simulation
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Computational Mathematics,
Vol.7 No.1,
March
31,
2017
ABSTRACT: A Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) model is presented to analyze the
flow dynamics of a two phase incompressible flow in the application sectors of different
industries. The Finite Element method (FEM) which is based on the Galerkin approximation,
has been implemented for this two phase flow model. Generally, two-phase flows
can occur in different forms like gas-liquid, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid
forms. The Oil and Water two-phase flow is an important phenomenon in petroleum
industry for crude oil production and transportation. In our study, a laminar
flow of liquid-liquid phase is considered to simulate the flow dynamics where
the liquid phases are water and oil. The COMSOL Multiphysics software is used
to perform the simulation including velocity profile, volume fraction, shear
rate, pressure distributions and interfacial thicknesses at different times. A
typical circular tube domain with radius 0.05 m and length 8 m is assumed for
our simulation.