Investigating matrix-fracture transfer via a level set method for drainage and imbibition

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 3136-3152

  Prodanović, Maša ^a   Bryant, Steven L ^a   Karpyn, Zuleima T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; DROP BREAKUP; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROPPANTS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; WETTING;

APERTURE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; INTERFACE CURVATURES; LOW PERMEABILITY ROCK; MATRIX-FRACTURE TRANSFERS; MULTI-PHASE FLOW PROPERTIES; YOUNG LAPLACE EQUATION;

FRACTURE;

EID: 58849134307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/116110-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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