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Flash calculations of the hydrocarbon mixture are essential for determining how the mixture phase behaves, which will ultimately affect subsurface flow and transport. In this paper, a novel numerical scheme is proposed for calculating the two-phase equilibrium of Peng-Robinson (PR) fluid at constant volume, temperature, and moles, namely the volume-temperature (VT) flash framework based on the dynamic model. Since the dynamic model is based on the energy dissipation law and the Onsager’s reciprocal principle, we proposed a linear energy-stable scheme with the help of the convex-concave splitting technique, the energy factorization approach, and the component-wise iteration framework. The scheme eventually results in a fully explicit algorithm, and it avoids the challenges of solving non-linear systems and other difficulties in the traditional flash calculation methods. This scheme inherits the original energy stability and significantly reduces the implementation burden. It also achieves convergence unconditionally, even with a huge time step. Numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate its accuracy.
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This study is partially funded by KAUST grants BAS/1/1351-01, URF/1/4074-01, and URF/1/3769-01, as well as by the Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C. (No. 108-2115-M-194-004-MY2), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51874262 and No. 51936001), the Peacock Plan Foundation of Shenzhen (No. 000255) and the General Program of Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen (No. 20200801100615003).
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Feng, X., Chen, MH., Wu, Y., Sun, S., Zhang, T. (2023). Component-wise and Unconditionally Energy-Stable VT Flash Calculation. In: Mikyška, J., de Mulatier, C., Paszynski, M., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2023. ICCS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36030-5_30
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