Steady filtration of Peng-Robinson gas in a porous medium

Abstract

Filtration of real gases described by Peng-Robinson equations of state in 3-dimensional space is studied. Thermodynamic states are considered as either Legendrian submanifolds in contact space, or Lagrangian submanifolds in symplectic space. The correspondence between singularities of their projection on the plane of intensives and phase transitions is shown, and coexistence curves in various coordinates are constructed. A method of finding explicit solutions of the Dirichlet boundary problem is provided and the case of a number of sources is discussed in details. The domains corresponding to different phases are shown.