MODELING OF MULTISCALE POROUS MEDIA

Autor: Bibhu Biswal, Pål-Eric Øren, Rudolf J Held, Stig Bakke, Rudolf Hilfer
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Image Analysis and Stereology, Vol 28, Iss 1, Pp 23-34 (2011)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1580-3139
1854-5165
DOI: 10.5566/ias.v28.p23-34
Popis: A stochastic geometrical modeling method for reconstructing three dimensional pore scale microstructures of multiscale porous media is presented. In this method the porous medium is represented by a random but spatially correlated structure of objects placed in the continuum. The model exhibits correlations with the sedimentary textures, scale dependent intergranular porosity over many decades, vuggy or dissolution porosity, a percolating pore space, a fully connected matrix space, strong resolution dependence and wide variability in the permeabilities and other properties. The continuum representation allows discretization at arbitrary resolutions providing synthetic micro-computertomographic images for resolution dependent fluid flow simulation. Model implementations for two different carbonate rocks are presented. The method can be used to generate pore scale models of a wide class of multiscale porous media.
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