Reconstruction, optimization, and design of heterogeneous materials and media: Basic principles, computational algorithms, and applications

M Sahimi, P Tahmasebi - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide variety of phenomena with applications to many disciplines, ranging from condensed …

Pore-scale modeling of carbonates

A Mehmani, R Verma, M Prodanović - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Carbonate rocks display complex pore textures with heterogeneities that extend over
several length scales. Identifying and capturing their significant pore space properties in a …

Pore space morphology analysis using maximal inscribed spheres

D Silin, T Patzek - Physica A: Statistical mechanics and its applications, 2006 - Elsevier
A new robust algorithm analyzing the geometry and connectivity of the pore space of
sedimentary rock is based on fundamental concepts of mathematical morphology. The …

A new method for evaluating the pore structure complexity of digital rocks based on the relative value of fractal dimension

X Li, W Wei, L Wang, P Ding, L Zhu, J Cai - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural porous media have extremely complex pore structures, which greatly affect the
material properties. However, it remains a challenge to characterize the pore structure …

Robust determination of the pore space morphology in sedimentary rocks

DB Silin, G Jin, TW Patzek - SPE Annual Technical Conference and …, 2003 - onepetro.org
We present a new robust approach to study the morphology (shapes and connectivity) of the
pore space of a sedimentary rock. Our approach is based on the long-established …

Challenges and prospects of digital core‐reconstruction research

L Zhu, C Zhang, C Zhang, X Zhou, Z Zhang, X Nie… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The simulation of various rock properties based on three‐dimensional digital cores plays an
increasingly important role in oil and gas exploration and development. The accuracy of 3D …

Analysis of chalk petrophysical properties by means of submicron-scale pore imaging and modeling

L Tomutsa, D Silin, V Radmilovic - SPE Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2007 - onepetro.org
For many rocks of high economic interest such as chalk, diatomite, shale, tight gas sands, or
coal, a submicron-scale resolution is needed to resolve the 3D pore structure, which controls …

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 …

Continuum reconstruction of the pore scale microstructure for Fontainebleau sandstone

FDE Latief, B Biswal, U Fauzi, R Hilfer - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2010 - Elsevier
A stochastic geometrical modeling technique is used to reconstruct a laboratory scale
Fontainebleau sandstone with a sidelength of 1.5 cm. The model reconstruction is based on …

Adaptive phase-retrieval stochastic reconstruction with correlation functions: Three-dimensional images from two-dimensional cuts

A Cherkasov, A Ananev, M Karsanina, A Khlyupin… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Precise characterization of three-dimensional (3D) heterogeneous media is indispensable
in finding the relationships between structure and macroscopic physical properties …