Industrial applications of digital rock technology

CF Berg, O Lopez, H Berland - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
This article provides an overview of the current state of digital rock technology, with
emphasis on industrial applications. We show how imaging and image analysis can be …

气液非混相驱替过程中的卡断机理及模拟研究

张晟庭, 李靖, 陈掌星, 张涛, 吴克柳, 冯东, 毕剑飞… - 力学学报, 2022 - lxxb.cstam.org.cn
研究气液非混相驱替过程中的相界面卡断机理及其影响因素在气驱, 气水交替及泡沫驱等提高
油气采收率领域具有重要意义. 本文在原始伪势格子玻尔兹曼模型的基础上, 改进流体 …

Pore-scale systematic study on the disconnection of bulk gas phase during water imbibition using visualized micromodels

J Tian, Q Chen, C Qin, Y Kang, N Jia, Z Xi - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
When water imbibes into tight rocks, the disconnection of bulk gas phase will significantly
impact the performance of gas recovery. In this work, we have conducted a systematic …

Pore-scale simulation of the interplay between wettability, capillary number, and salt dispersion on the efficiency of oil mobilization by low-salinity waterflooding

A Namaee-Ghasemi, S Ayatollahi, H Mahani - SPE Journal, 2021 - onepetro.org
Nonuniform mixing during low-salinity waterflooding (LSWF) is a function of the pore
geometry and flow patterns within the porous system. Salinity-dependent wettability …

Approximating permeability of microcomputed-tomography images using elliptic flow equations

T Chung, YD Wang, RT Armstrong, P Mostaghimi - SPE Journal, 2019 - onepetro.org
Direct simulation of flow on microcomputed‐tomography (micro‐CT) images of rocks is
widely used for the calculation of permeability. However, direct numerical methods are …

Direct simulation of pore-scale two-phase visco-capillary flow on large digital rock images using a phase-field lattice Boltzmann method on general-purpose graphics …

FO Alpak, I Zacharoudiou, S Berg, J Dietderich… - Computational …, 2019 - Springer
We describe the underlying mathematics, validation, and applications of a novel Helmholtz
free-energy—minimizing phase-field model solved within the framework of the lattice …

Validating the generalized pore network model using micro-CT images of two-phase flow

AQ Raeini, J Yang, I Bondino, T Bultreys… - Transport in Porous …, 2019 - Springer
A reliable prediction of two-phase flow through porous media requires the development and
validation of models for flow across multiple length scales. The generalized network model …

Prediction of fluid topology and relative permeability in imbibition in sandstone rock by direct numerical simulation

FO Alpak, S Berg, I Zacharoudiou - Advances in Water Resources, 2018 - Elsevier
Pore-to-Darcy scale upscaling of multiphase flow is one of the major unresolved problems in
many fields of porous media research. While this problem involves very fundamental …

Quantitative determination of the threshold pressure for a discontinuous phase to pass through a constriction using microscale simulation

G Imani, L Zhang, MJ Blunt, C Xu, Y Guo, H Sun… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The displacement of oil by water in a porous rock leads to a disconnection of the oil phase
as a result of the competition of viscous and capillary forces. In this study, we performed two …

Pore-doublet computational fluid dynamic simulation of the effects of dynamic contact angle and interfacial tension alterations on the displacement mechanisms of oil …

MR Alizadeh, M Fatemi - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2021 - Elsevier
Using our recently developed model, for the first time in the literature, the effect of fluid/fluid
and rock/fluid interactions on the performance of Low Salinity Waterflooding (LSWF, as an …