This paper aims to elaborate foam concepts and foam flow modeling approaches in porous media. Furthermore, this review summarizes and compares all existing foam models approaches including Mechanistic, Semi-Empirical and Empirical. Finally, it discusses foam models in different reservoir simulators in detail and presents different approaches for obtaining models’ parameters in simulators. The comparison results showed that Emprical models are more suitable for simulation study due to less required paramters and faster calculation; however, these models might not be a appropriate in transient foam flow. Moreover, the challenges about he results of this review provide an valuble insight about foam behaiviour.

本文旨在阐述多孔介质中的泡沫概念和泡沫流动建模方法。此外，这篇综述总结并比较了所有现有的泡沫模型方法，包括机械方法，半经验方法和经验方法。最后，它详细讨论了不同储层模拟器中的泡沫模型，并提出了在模拟器中获取模型参数的不同方法。比较结果表明，Empprical模型由于所需参数更少且计算速度更快，因此更适合于仿真研究。但是，这些模型可能不适用于瞬态泡沫流动。此外，本次审查结果面临的挑战为泡沫行为提供了宝贵的见识。