Prediction of the motion of the oil-water contact boundary has great importance in
the problems of design of oilfield development by waterflooding: knowledge of the nature of
coupled motion of oil and water, displacing oil in the reservoir allows us to optimize the
system of oil field development. The simplest model of coupled filtering of oil and water is
the model of "multicolored" liquids, which assumes that oil and water have the same or
similar physical properties (density and viscosity).
In this paper we consider a more complex "piston-like" model of oil-water displacement,
which takes into account differences in viscosity and density of the two fluids. Oil reservoir
assumed to be homogeneous and infinite, fixed thickness, with constant values of porosity
and permeability coefficients. It is assumed that the reservoir is developed by a group of a
finite number of production and injection wells recurrent in two directions (doubly-periodic
cluster). Filtration of liquids is described by Darcy's law. It is assumed, that both fluids are
weakly compressible and the pressure in the reservoir satisfies the quasi-stationary diffusion
equation.
Piston-like displacement model leads to the discontinuity of the tangential component of
the velocity vector at the boundary of oil-water contact. Use of the theory of elliptic functions
in conjunction with the generalized Cauchy integrals reduces the problem of finding the
current boundaries of oil-water contact to the system of singular integral equations for the
tangential and normal components of the velocity vector and the Cauchy problem for the
integration of the differential equations of motion of the boundary of oil-water contact.
An algorithm for the numerical solution of this problem is developed. The monitoring of
oil-water boundary motion for different schemes of waterflooding (linear row, four-point,
five-point, seven-point, nine-point, etc.) is carried out
