The carrier fluid flow is incompressible, pseudosteady state, single-phase, and radial only
That the formation is a homogeneous layer of thickness (h) and porosity () extending from the
wellbore radius (rw) to an external boundary radius (re), where reservoir pressure is constant
....................(1)
where r = radial position; q = fluid flow rate in the single well (q > 0 is injection and q < 0 is production); h =
height of test zone; = porosity; and Sf = flowing fluid saturation, constant.
The additional assumptions regarding the tracers are:
That KA for tracer A is constant and that A is in local equilibrium between flowing fluid (saturation Sf)
and residual fluid (saturation Sr). For Case 1, Sr = Sor and Sf = 1.0 Sor.
That tracer A (primary) reacts in situ to form tracer B (product) at a rate given by
....................(2)
where RH = hydrolysis reaction rate, in moles of A per vol-day; CA = concentration of A, in mol/volume;
and kH = hydrolysis rate constant (days 1) in the aqueous phase. Tracers are dispersed in the radial flow
with an effective dispersion coefficient (Da), given by
....................(3)
where = dispersivity (ft).
The material balance for tracer A is the partial differential equation:
....................(4)
Similar equations apply for product tracer B and the material-balance tracers.
SWCT test simulation requires the numerical solution of these equations for A, B, and the material-balance
tracer. The equations first are converted to finite-differenced form, based on the perfectly mixed cell model.
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The simulation program then solves the finite-differenced equations for the concentrations of the tracers
Known parameters, which are: q as a function of time (injection, shut-in, production), injected
concentration of tracer A (CA) and concentration of tracer B (CB) as a function of
time; rw, h, ; KA and KB.
Unknown (estimated) parameters, which are: kH, Sor, and the radial dimension of the cells (R).
Note: according to the theory of the perfectly mixed cell model for small time intervals, R = 2.