Wettability alteration may be a time-dependent process controlled by exposure to a reactive fluid, leading to dynamic changes in constitutive functions over time. New dynamic models for capillary pressure and relative permeability have been developed based on pore-scale simulation of displacement processes where the contact angle changes dynamically. The form of the dynamic models is simple and the parameters can be easily predicted from a laboratory data measuring contact angle change over time. A convergent and robust iterative linearization scheme with a stabilization term was developed for simulation of multiphase flow with a capillary pressure function that is non-local in time. The impact of dynamic wettability alteration on migration and trapping will be studied for realistic CO2 storage scenarios.
Numerical Simulation of CO2 Migration with Dynamic Constitutive Functions Due to Wettability Alteration