Experimental displacement patterns in a 2 × 2 quadrant block with permeability and wettability heterogeneities - Problems for numerical modelling

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-22

  Dawe, Richard A ^a   Grattoni, Carlos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Drainage; Flow mechanisms; Heterogeneity; Imbibition; Immiscible displacement; Miscible displacement; Quadrant model; Renormalisation; Reservoir simulation; Upscaling; Wettability

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WETTING;

FLOW MECHANISM; QUADRANT MODEL; RESERVOIR SIMULATION;

FLOW SIMULATION;

CAPILLARITY; FLOW SIMULATION; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WETTING;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; IMBIBITION; IMMISCIBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR FLOODING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WETTABILITY;

EID: 38949121214     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-007-9108-5     Document Type: Article

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