We study the oil displacement and production behavior in an isothermal thin layered reservoir model subjected to water flooding. We use the CMG’s (Computer Modelling Group) numerical simulators to solve mass balance equations. The influences of the viscosity ratio (m≡μoil/μwater) and the...

A derivation of power law canonical distributions from first principle statistical mechanics, including the exponential distribution as a particular case is presented. It is shown that these distributions arise naturally, and that the heat capacity of the heat bath is the condition that...

The proportional elections held in Brazil in 1998 and 2002 display identical statistical signatures. In particular, the distribution of votes among candidates includes a power-law regime. We suggest that the rationale behind this robust scaling invariance is a multiplicative process in which the...

This is an analysis of the thermodynamical entropy of systems with finite heat baths and of its additivity. It is presented an expression for the physical entropy of weakly interacting ergodic systems, and it is shown how it relates to the traditional entropies of the micro-canonical (constant...

We study the fluid flow through disordered porous media by numerically solving the complete set of the Navier–Stokes equations in a two-dimensional lattice with a spatially random distribution of solid obstacles (plaquettes). We simulate viscous and non-viscous flow through these idealized...

We study the spreading of damage in S = 12 Ising ferromagnetic thin films consisting of two and more monolayers. We use Metropolis dynamics to calculate the temperature dependence of the Hamming distance as well as Hamming distance distributions along the Markov chain. We suggest a new way to...

The single-cluster Monte Carlo algorithm and the reweighting technique are used to simulate the 3D ferromagnetic Ising model on 3D Voronoi–Delauney lattices. It is assumed that the coupling factor J varies with the distance r between the first neighbors as J(r)∝e−ar, with a≥0. The...

The quenched site-diluted Ising ferromagnet on a square lattice, for which each site is occupied or empty with probabilities p and 1 − p, respectively, is studied numerically through damage-spreading procedures. By making use of the Glauber dynamics, the percolation threshold pc is estimated....

We obtain the relations between macroscopic thermodynamical properties and microscopic ensemble averages of a system in contact with a heat bath which has a finite number of degrees of freedom. Our approach is based on the geometry of the accessible phase space of the system. By using a suitable...