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    Étude de préfaisabilité du turbinage des eaux de la station de traitement de Koudiet Acerdoune/Algérie
    (Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2022) Iguercha, Amina; Zouaoui, S.; Mohammedi, K.; Bouaziz, M.; Kari, D.
    Cette étude vise à récupérer l'énergie résiduelle de l’eau à son arrivée dans la station de traitement d'eau par turbinage, au lieu de continuer à la dissiper comme on le fait actuellement au moyen de robinets brises-charge. Une analyse de la faisabilité technique du projet et une évaluation du potentiel hydroélectrique disponible ont été accomplies, avant de proposer différentes options pour l’installation des équipements de turbinage. En utilisant cette méthode, le maximum de quantité d'énergie qui peut être récupérée a été estimée à 7,44 GWh, celui de la quantité de carbone économisée a été estimé à 446,210 tonnes CO2. Nous concluons notre projet par une évaluation de la rentabilité des aménagements hydroélectriques.
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    Numerical Study of Viscous Fingering in Heterogeneous Porous Media
    (2022) Djebouri, Hassane; Zouaoui, S.; Mohammedi, K.
    The displacement of a fluid by a second immiscible fluid is a fundamental process which is relevant for many technological applications, particularly in the petroleum industry. Water is the fluid widely used to push oil to production wells. During this immiscible displacement, a viscous fingering instability appears at the water-oil interface. This undesirable phenomenon leads to a low oil sweeping efficiency. To prevent this situation, techniques called EOR (Enhance Oil Recovery) are used. These methods have technical, economic and environmental disadvantages. Therefore, the objective of this work is to seek a rational use of EOR techniques by determining the right place and the appropriate time to operate them. In many previous studies, the effects of viscosity ratio, interfacial tension and flow rate are investigated. In this study, we numerically investigate the effect of the heterogeneity of the medium and the presence of the fracture on this phenomenon. Three different configurations are studied. The obtained results allowed to locate the regions where the behaviour of the instability varies during displacement in the porous medium, regions where instability is increasing and others where it remains constant. a qualitative comparison between the different cases is also made.
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    Towards numerical simulation tool of motion solid particles in fluid flow
    (International Society of Multiphysics, 2021) Zouaoui, S.; Djebouri, H.; Ferhat, B.; Mohammedi, K.
    We present here a numerical method to compute the motion of rigid particles in fluid flow with a non-elastic impact law. Many methods have been proposed recently and different strategies have been used to compute such flows. Our motivation is the handling of the non-overlapping constraint in fluid-particle direct simulations. Each particle is treated individually and the Navier-Stokes equations are solved for the moving fluid by Fluent code which is based on the Finite Volume Method. The contact-handling algorithm, which is implemented in a research C ++, is based on the projection of the velocity field of the rigid particles over the velocity field of the fluid flow. The method consists of imposing a constraint on the velocity field of the particles, as a guarantee that at each time step the calculated particle velocity field belongs to an eligible velocity field of the fluid. In this case study, an Uzawa algorithm has been applied