Identifying the representative elementary volume for permeability in heterolithic deposits using numerical rock models

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 753-771

  Nordahl, Kjetil ^a   Ringrose, Philip S ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Heterolithic sandstone; Permeability; Representative elementary volume

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY RATIO; BEST ESTIMATES; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DISCONTINUOUS SYSTEMS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM; FLOW BARRIERS; HARMONIC AVERAGE; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HETEROLITHIC SANDSTONE; LAYERED SYSTEMS; LITHOFACIES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERCOLATION MODELS; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; PERMEABILITY; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY VOLUME; SAMPLE VOLUME; SMALL SAMPLES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; UPSCALING; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

DEPOSITS; LITHOLOGY; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLVENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CAPILLARITY;

FLUID FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; MUDSTONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; SANDSTONE;

EID: 67649550924     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-008-9182-4     Document Type: Article

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