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The displacement of one fluid by another fluid in a porous medium is of importance in many processes, especially petroleum recovery. The purpose of this paper is to describe three types of displacements where patterns are very ramified: i) when a non-wetting fluid is injected at very low flow rate (capillary fingering), ii) when a low viscosity fluid pushes a more viscous fluid (viscous fingering), iii) when the porous matrix is etched by the invading fluid (reactive flow).
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Soucemarianadin, A., Lenormand, R., Daccord, G., Touboul, E., Zarcone, C. (1987). Fractal Flow Patterns in Porous Media. In: Meunier, J., Langevin, D., Boccara, N. (eds) Physics of Amphiphilic Layers. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83202-4_55
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