The statistical properties of immiscible fluid displacement in bond/site correlated network models of porous media |
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| Authors: | R Maier and W G Laidlaw |
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| Institution: | (1) Chemistry Department, University of Calgary, T2N 1N4 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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| Abstract: | A statistical formulation is introduced which allows the determination of capillary pressure and relative permeability curves from lattice properties and, by extension, possibly core properties. Comparisons of statistical results to simulation results generally show good agreement for both drainage and imbibition. These processes turn out to be two different formulations of a single problem in one view presented here. Both agreement and disagreement between statistics and simulation results provide insight into the characteristics of the flow of immiscible fluids in porous media. A considerable amount of topological information on the fluids is also obtainable by these methods. |
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| Keywords: | percolation lattice statistics permeability immiscible fluid flow |
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