Ibtihel Ben Gharbia, M. Haddou, Quang Huy Tran, Duc Thach Son Vu
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Abstract
In this paper , we conduct a thorough mathematical analysis of the unified formulation advocated by Lauser et al . [ Adv . Water Res . 34 (2011), 957-966] for compositional multiphase flows in porous media . The interest of this formulation lies in its potential to automatically handle the appearance and disappearance of phases. However , its practical implementation turned out to be not always robust for realistic fugacity laws associated with cubic equations of state , as shown by Ben Gharbia and Flauraud [ Oil & Gas Sci . Technol . 74 (2019), 43]. By focusing on the subproblem of phase equilibrium , we derive sufficient conditions for the existence of the corresponding system of equations. We trace back the difficulty of cubic laws to a deficiency of the Gibbs functions that comes into play due to the `` unifying '' feature of the new formulation. We propose a partial remedy for this problem by extending the domain of definition of these functions in a natural way . Besides , we highlight the crucial but seemingly unknown fact that the unified formulation encapsulates all the properties known to physicists on phase equilibrium , such as the tangent plane criterion and the minimization of the Gibbs energy of the mixture.
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