Connecting microstructural attributes and permeability from 3D tomographic images of in situ shear-enhanced compaction bands using multiscale computations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Waiching ^a   Andrade, José E ^a   Rudnicki, John W ^b   Eichhubl, Peter ^c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; GRAPH THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SANDSTONE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPACTION BANDS; GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS; HYBRID LATTICE; IN-SITU; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LEVEL SET; MAJOR FACTORS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MULTISCALE COMPUTATION; MULTISCALE FLOW SIMULATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; PORE SPACE; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES;

COMPACTION;

COMPACTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GEOMETRY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PORE SPACE; SANDSTONE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79956361357     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047683     Document Type: Article

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