Prediction of Non-Darcy Coefficients for Inertial Flows Through the Castlegate Sandstone Using Image-Based Modeling

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 563-580

  Chukwudozie, C P ^a   Tyagi, M ^a   Sears, S O ^a   White, C D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Castlegate sandstone; Forchheimer equation; Image based modeling; Lattice Boltzmann method; Non Darcy flow

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; DARCY REGIMES; DARCY'S LAW; FORCHHEIMER EQUATION; HIGH RATE GAS WELLS; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOWS; IMAGE-BASED MODELING; INERTIAL FLOW; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHODS (LBM); MACROSCOPIC PARAMETERS; MEDIA PROPERTIES; NEAR WELLBORE; NON-DARCY FLOW; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE-DRIVEN FLOWS; SEGMENTED IMAGES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SANDSTONE;

FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; GAS WELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LATTICE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SANDSTONE;

EID: 84868623073     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-0062-5     Document Type: Article

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