Jointly deriving NMR surface relaxivity and pore size distributions by NMR relaxation experiments on partially desaturated rocks

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5309-5321

  Mohnke, O ^a   Hughes, B ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Celle Technology Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

inversion; NMR relaxometry; partial saturation; permeability; relative permeability; surface relaxivity

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EXPERIMENTS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MINERALS; ROCKS;

INVERSION; NMR RELAXOMETRY; PARTIAL SATURATION; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SURFACE RELAXIVITY;

PORE SIZE;

EID: 84902707646     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015282     Document Type: Article

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