Pore-scale modeling of electrical and fluid transport in Berea sandstone

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Zhan, Xin ^a   Schwartz, Lawrence M ^a,b   Toksöz, M Nafi ^a   Smith, Wave C ^b   Morgan, F Dale ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROLYTES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SANDSTONE;

ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BEREA SANDSTONE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; SURFACE AREA; TOMOGRAPHY; FLUID FLOW; LABORATORY METHOD; RESOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 84864155477     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3463704     Document Type: Article

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