TY - JOUR AB - A novel method for simulating multi-phase flow in porous media is presented. The approach is based on acontrol volume finite element mixed formulation and new force-balanced finite element pairs. The novelty ofthe method lies in: (a) permitting both continuous and discontinuous description of pressure and saturationbetween elements; (b) the use of arbitrarily high-order polynomial representation for pressure and velocityand (c) the use of high-order flux-limited methods in space and to time avoid introducing non-physicaloscillations while achieving high-order accuracy where and when possible. The model is initially validatedfor two-phase flow. Results are in good agreement with analytically obtained solutions and experimentalresults. The potential of this method is demonstrated by simulating flow in a realistic geometry composed ofhighly permeable meandering channels. AU - Gomes,JLMA AU - Pavlidis,D AU - Salinas,P AU - Xie,Z AU - Percival,JR AU - Melnikova,Y AU - Pain,CC AU - Jackson,MD DO - 10.1002/fld.4275 EP - 445 PY - 2016/// SN - 1097-0363 SP - 431 TI - A force-balanced control volume finite element method for multi-phase porous media flow modelling T2 - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.4275 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/39806 VL - 83 ER -