Pore-network modeling of flow in shale nanopores: Network structure, flow principles, and computational algorithms

R Cui, SM Hassanizadeh, S Sun - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrocarbons in subsurface nanoporous media, such as shale, are promising energy
resources to compensate for the shortage of conventional reservoirs. Pore-network …

A comprehensive review of pore scale modeling methodologies for multiphase flow in porous media

A Golparvar, Y Zhou, K Wu, J Ma… - Advances in Geo …, 2018 - researchportal.hw.ac.uk
Multiphase flow in porous media is relevant to amount of engineering processes, such as
hydrocarbon extraction from reservoir rock, water contamination, CO2 geological storage …

Versatile and efficient pore network extraction method using marker-based watershed segmentation

JT Gostick - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Obtaining structural information from tomographic images of porous materials is a critical
component of porous media research. Extracting pore networks is particularly valuable since …

OpenPNM: a pore network modeling package

J Gostick, M Aghighi, J Hinebaugh… - … in Science & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pore network modeling is a widely used technique for simulating multiphase transport in
porous materials, but there are very few software options available. This work outlines the …

Analysis of fundamentals of two-phase flow in porous media using dynamic pore-network models: a review

V Joekar-Niasar, SM Hassanizadeh - Critical reviews in …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In this literature survey, different aspects of dynamics of two-phase flow in porous media are
discussed. This review is based on the results of developed dynamic pore-network models …

Developments in spontaneous imbibition and possibilities for future work

G Mason, NR Morrow - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
Spontaneous imbibition controls many processes of practical importance. The subject is
undergoing rapid growth in terms of the number of publications. This paper is a selective …

Lattice‐Boltzmann simulation of two‐phase flow in porous media

C Pan, M Hilpert, CT Miller - Water Resources Research, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We simulate two‐fluid‐phase flow at the pore scale using a lattice Boltzmann (LB) approach.
Using a parallel processing version of the Shan‐Chen model that we developed, we …

Production forecasting with logistic growth models

AJ Clark, LW Lake, TW Patzek - SPE Annual Technical Conference …, 2011 - onepetro.org
With the commercial development of extremely low permeability oil and gas reservoirs, new
challenges have arisen both from operational and reservoir standpoints. Reservoir models …

The physics of paper

M Alava, K Niskanen - Reports on progress in physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Paper is a material known to everybody. It has a network structure consisting of wood fibres
that can be mimicked by cooking a portion of spaghetti and pouring it on a plate, to form a …

Multiscale, multiphysics network modeling of shale matrix gas flows

A Mehmani, M Prodanović, F Javadpour - Transport in porous media, 2013 - Springer
We present a pore network model to determine the permeability of shale gas matrix.
Contrary to the conventional reservoirs, where permeability is only a function of topology …