Simulation of two-phase flow in reservoir rocks using a lattice Boltzmann method

T Ramstad, PE Øren, S Bakke - Spe Journal, 2010 - onepetro.org
We present results from simulations of two-phase flow directly on digitized rock-
microstructure images of porous media using a lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. The …

Numerical modeling of fluid and electrical currents through geometries based on synchrotron X-ray tomographic images of reservoir rocks using Avizo and COMSOL

MB Bird, SL Butler, CD Hawkes, T Kotzer - Computers & Geosciences, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of numerical simulations to model physical processes occurring within subvolumes
of rock samples that have been characterized using advanced 3D imaging techniques is …

Experimental and theoretical evidence for increased ganglion dynamics during fractional flow in mixed‐wet porous media

S Zou, RT Armstrong, JY Arns, CH Arns… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray microtomography (micro‐CT) provides a nondestructive way for estimating rock
properties such as relative permeability. Relative permeability is computed on the fluid …

Finite-difference approximation for fluid-flow simulation and calculation of permeability in porous media

V Shabro, C Torres-Verdín, F Javadpour… - Transport in porous …, 2012 - Springer
We introduce a finite-difference method to simulate pore scale steady-state creeping fluid
flow in porous media. First, a geometrical approximation is invoked to describe the interstitial …

Computation of relative permeability from imaged fluid distributions at the pore scale

F Hussain, WV Pinczewski, Y Cinar, JY Arns… - Transport in porous …, 2014 - Springer
Image-based computations of relative permeability for capillary-dominated quasi-static
displacements require a realistic description of the distribution of the fluids in the pore space …

Computation of relative permeability from in-situ imaged fluid distributions at the pore scale

S Zou, F Hussain, J Arns, Z Guo, CH Arns - SPE Journal, 2018 - onepetro.org
Image-based computations of relative permeability require a description of fluid distributions
in the pore space. Recent advances in imaging technologies have made it possible to …

Digital rock physics combined with machine learning for rock mechanical properties characterization

B Saad, A Negara, S Syed Ali - Abu Dhabi International Petroleum …, 2018 - onepetro.org
Rock mechanical properties is essential for several geomechanical applications such as
wellbore stability analysis, hydraulic fracturing design, and sand production management …

[HTML][HTML] Application of digital core analysis to improve reservoir characterisation and modelling: The Otway formation as a case study

M Aslannezhad, M Sayyafzadeh, D Tang… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Conventional reservoir models of heterogeneous reservoirs do not include micro-scale
heterogeneity due to the resolution limitations of widely used well logs and core plug data …

Comparison of NMR simulations of porous media derived from analytical and voxelized representations

G Jin, C Torres-Verdín, E Toumelin - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2009 - Elsevier
We develop and compare two formulations of the random-walk method, grain-based and
voxel-based, to simulate the nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR) response of fluids …

Quantifying fluid distribution and phase connectivity with a simple 3D cubic pore network model constrained by NMR and MICP data

C Xu, C Torres-Verdín - Computers & Geosciences, 2013 - Elsevier
A computer algorithm is implemented to construct 3D cubic pore networks that
simultaneously honor nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mercury injection capillary …