Finite volume approximation for an immiscible two-phase flow in porous media with discontinuous capillary pressure
We consider an immiscible incompressible two-phase flow in a porous medium composed of two different rocks so that the capillary pressure field is discontinuous at the interface between the rocks. This leads us to apply a concept of multivalued phase pressures and a notion of weak solution for the flow which have been introduced in CancSs and Pierre (SIAM J Math Anal 44(2):966-992, 2012). We discretize the problem by means of a numerical algorithm which reduces to a standard finite volume scheme in each rock and prove the convergence of the approximate solution to a weak solution of the two-phase flow problem. The numerical experiments show in particular that this scheme permits to reproduce the oil-trapping phenomenon.
two-phase flow in porous media finite volume schemes degenerate parabolic discontinuous capillarity