Developing a porosity-permeability relationship for ellipsoidal grains: A correction shape factor for Kozeny-Carman's equation

M Safari, R Gholami, M Jami, MA Ananthan… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rock typing is a process through which reservoir layers are classified into distinct units with
similar geological conditions. The Kozeny-Carman's equation is commonly used for rock …

Multi-scale experimental and numerical simulation workflow of absolute permeability in heterogeneous carbonates

A Islam, TF Faisal, S Chevalier, MS Jouini… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Digital Rock Physics (DRP) is a field that makes use of recent advances in imaging
technology and computational methods to determine several rock properties by running …

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 …

Mechanical properties of granular materials: A variational approach to grain‐scale simulations

R Holtzman, DB Silin, TW Patzek - International journal for …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanical properties of cohesionless granular materials are evaluated from grain‐
scale simulations. A three‐dimensional pack of spherical grains is loaded by incremental …

Experimental validation of pore-level calculations of static and dynamic petrophysical properties of clastic rocks

G Jin, C Torres-Verdin, F Radaelli… - SPE Annual Technical …, 2007 - onepetro.org
We present an integrated approach to calculate fundamental macroscopic static and
dynamic properties of porous media, including absolute permeability, formation factor …

Pore-level analysis of the relationship between porosity, irreducible water saturation, and permeability of clastic rocks

T Torskaya, G Jin, C Torres-Verdin - SPE Annual Technical …, 2007 - onepetro.org
Permeability is one of the most important, most spatially variable, most uncertain, and hence
least predictable transport properties of porous media. Various empirical models, such as …

Frictional granular mechanics: A variational approach

R Holtzman, DB Silin, TW Patzek - International journal for …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanical properties of a cohesionless granular material are evaluated from grain‐
scale simulations. Intergranular interactions, including friction and sliding, are modeled by a …

Modeling the impact of rock formation history on the evolution of absolute permeability

G Jin, TW Patzek, DB Silin - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
We present results of simulations based on a physics-based depositional model of
sandstone. The initial rock sediment is modeled as a pack of spherical grains. The absolute …

Micromechanics of hydrate dissociation in marine sediments by grain-scale simulations

R Holtzman, DB Silin, TW Patzek - SPE Western Regional Meeting, 2008 - onepetro.org
We seek to quantify the impact of hydrate dissociation on the strength of hydrate-bearing
sediments. Dissociation of gas-hydrates in marine sediments converts the solid hydrate …

[PDF][PDF] Pore-scale mechanistic study of the preferential mode of hydrate formation in sediments: Coupling of multiphase fluid flow and sediment mechanics

AK Jain, R Juanes - Proc. 6th Intl. Conf. Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2008), 2008 - netl.doe.gov
We present a discrete element model for the simulation, at the grain scale, of gas migration
in brine-saturated deformable media. We account rigorously for the presence of two fluids in …