Nuclear magnetic resonance cross-relaxation spectroscopy maps the proton solidstate NMR spectrum onto the proton water NMR signal of aqueous heterogeneous materials ( Z-3). Application of a relatively long, low-intensity RF pulse, off resonance from the water Larmor frequency but within the linewidth of the solid, partially saturates the nuclear magnetism of the solid protons. Magnetic cross re...

[1] A Shan-Chen–type multiphase lattice Boltzmann (LB) model was applied to observed computed microtomography data from water-air and water-Soltrol displacement experiments in a glass bead porous medium. Analysis of the Bond, Reynolds, and Capillary numbers for these systems showed that capillary forces were dominant removing the need to model viscous, gravitational, and density effects. A nume...

Petrophysical parameters such as porosity, water and oil saturations, formation resistivity factor, etc. describe the storage capability of the porous media or the capacity of rocks to hold fluids. The modified Archie’s equation . / . , also called the saturation equation, is used to determine the water saturation. Archie’s parameters, namely , , and , are sometimes assumed constant to simp...

Spontaneous imbibition is of special importance to oil recovery from fractured reservoirs. Laboratory measurements of volume of liquid imbibed versus time are often used in the prediction of oil recovery. Imbibition measurements also provide a useful approach to the complex problem of characterizing the wetting properties of porous media. Correlation of a large body of data for imbibition of br...

In this paper, we extend the second and third order classical central schemes for the hyperbolic conservation laws to solve the modified Buckley-Leverett (MBL) equation which is of pseudo-parabolic type. The MBL equation describes two-phase flow in porous media, and it differs from the classical Buckley-Leverett (BL) equation by including a balanced diffusive-dispersive combination. The classic...

Low temperature calorimetry (LTC) is usually applied to characterize the porosity of cement-based materials with a total water saturated state. By recording the heat flow of the sample at different testing temperatures, the ice content in the freezing and the melting process can be analyzed. In order to investigate the state of the water during the freezing/melting process of unsaturated porous...

[1] A simple bundle of capillary tubes model has been used to investigate electrokinetic coupling during the flow of water and an immiscible second phase such as air or oil. It is shown that the total electrokinetic coupling is the sum of the individual phase contributions. The electrokinetic coupling depends on the capillary size distribution and wettability. When water is the wetting phase an...

The oilfield water in the Upper Sandstone Member of the Zubair reservoir (Barriemian-Hauterivian) at Rumaila North Oil Field was investigated for the interpretation of salinity and geochemical evolution of brine compositions. The interaction of the oilfield water with reservoir rock resulted in a brine water derived from the marine water origin of partial mixing with meteoric water similar to t...