Permeability prediction from thin sections: 3D reconstruction and Lattice-Boltzmann flow simulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Keehm, Youngseuk ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINED FLOW; DATA ACQUISITION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROUS MATERIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

3D RECONSTRUCTION; GEOSTATISTICS; THIN SECTIONS;

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

FLOW MODELING; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FLOW MODELING; GEOSTATISTICS; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; THIN SECTION;

EID: 2542465811     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018761     Document Type: Article

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