Accurate permeability estimation has always been a concern in determining flow units, assigning appropriate capillary pressure andrelative permeability curves to reservoir rock types, geological modeling, and dynamic simulation.Acoustic method can be used as analternative and effective tool for permeability determination. In this study, a four-step approach is proposed for permeability estimati...

Geochemical reaction rate laws are often measured using crushed minerals in well-mixed laboratory systems that are designed to eliminate mass transport limitations. Such rate laws are often used directly in reactive transport models to predict the reaction and transport of chemical species in consolidated porous media found in subsurface environments. Due to the inherent heterogeneities of poro...

The constitutive relation that describes the amount of nonwetting ̄uid phase entrapment is critical to the modeling of multiphase ̄ow in porous media, but it has received insucient attention in the literature. We studied this relation using both experimental and modeling approaches: we used a nondestructive, X-ray monitored, long-column experiment that yielded a rich data set for two di€erent p...

[1] We show how to predict flow properties for a variety of porous media using pore-scale modeling with geologically realistic networks. Starting with a network representation of Berea sandstone, the pore size distribution is adjusted to match capillary pressure for different media, keeping the rank order of pore sizes and the network topology fixed. Then predictions of single and multiphase pr...

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxometry tests, carried out on partially saturated porous media, convey information on the distribution of fluids within the pore space. Proper interpretation of this information requires a means to isolate the effects of pore structure (pore and throat shape and size distributions, spatial correlations, etc.) wettability and saturation history. A pore networ...

We present a dynamic network model to investigate the effects of capillary number and viscosity ratio on displacement patterns and fractional flow in primary drainage. This model predicts the events that are observed in the micro-model experiments, such as swelling of the wetting layers and the meniscus oscillation. Interfaces are tracked through the pore elements using a modified Poiseuille eq...