Pore-scale imaging and modelling

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 197-216

  Blunt, Martin J ^a   Bijeljic, Branko ^a   Dong, Hu ^b   Gharbi, Oussama ^a   Iglauer, Stefan ^c   Mostaghimi, Peyman ^a   Paluszny, Adriana ^a   Pentland, Christopher ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IRock Technologies   (China)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Imaging; Network modelling; Pore scale; Relative permeability

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT; CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE; CARBON STORAGE; CONTAMINANT REMOVAL; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; FIELD SCALE; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; HETEROGENEOUS CARBONATES; NANOMETRES; NETWORK MODELLING; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; OIL AND GAS; OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY; OIL INDUSTRIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PORE SPACE; PORE-SCALE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; ROCK SAMPLE; SIMULATING FLOWS; UPSCALING; WATER FLOOD;

CARBONATES; ENERGY RESOURCES; GAS INDUSTRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL FIELDS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GAS FIELD; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MODELING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL FIELD; PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; PORE SPACE; POROSITY; SANDSTONE;

EID: 84872952268     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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