Towards precise prediction of transport properties from synthetic computer tomography of reconstructed porous media

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2009 Oct;80(4 Pt 1):041301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041301. Epub 2009 Oct 2.

Abstract

Transport properties of a multiscale carbonate rock are predicted from pore scale models, reconstructed using a continuum geometrical modeling technique. The method combines crystallite information from two-dimensional high-resolution images with sedimentary correlations from a three-dimensional low-resolution microcomputed tomography ( micro-CT) image to produce a rock sample with calibrated porosity, structural correlation, and transport properties at arbitrary resolutions. Synthetic micro-CT images of the reconstructed model match well with experimental micro-CT images at different resolutions, making it possible to predict physical transport parameters at higher resolutions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't