Impact of dissipation ratio on vanishing viscosity solutions of the Riemann problem for chemical flooding model

Abstract

The solutions for a Riemann problem arising in chemical flooding models are studied using vanishing viscosity as an admissibility criterion. We show that when the flow function depends non-monotonically on the concentration of chemicals, non-classical undercompressive shocks appear. The monotonic dependence of the shock velocity on the ratio of dissipative coefficients is proven. For that purpose we provide the classification of the nullcline configurations for the traveling wave dynamical systems and analyze the saddle–saddle connections.