Multiphase flow predictions from carbonate pore space images using extracted network models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Al Kharusi, Anwar S ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; CARBONATION; CONTACT ANGLE; DRAINAGE; EXTRACTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FORECASTING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIQUIDS; MANAGEMENT; MERCURY (METAL); MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PORE STRUCTURE; RESERVOIRS (WATER); ROCKS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WELL FLOODING;

ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CARBONATE ROCKS; CONTACT ANGLES; DEGREE OF CONTACT; DRAINAGE FLOWS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW PREDICTIONS; GEOLOGICAL VARIATIONS; IMAGE VOLUMES; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHODS; MEASURED VALUES; MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT; NETWORK MODELLING; PORE SPACES; SECTION IMAGE; TOPOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS; VOID SPACES; WATER FLOODING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CARBONATE ROCK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRAINAGE WATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; IMAGING METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MULTIPHASE FLOW; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; TOPOLOGY; WATER FLOW;

EID: 49449091488     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005695     Document Type: Article

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