This work addresses the macroscopic modeling of flow near porous media boundaries. includes vicinity with a fluid channel (i.e., fracture), another rigid medium, or an impervious non-deformable solid. The analysis is carried out for one-phase, steady, incompressible, inertial, and isothermal Newtonian fluid, considering slip effects at solid–fluid interfaces. A one-domain approach proposed, emp...

for the characteristics of horizontal fractures in shallow low-permeability oil layers after hydraulic fracturing in multilayer reservoirs, horizontal fractures are taken equivalent to an elliptical cylinder with the reservoir thickness using the equivalent permeability model; then, upon the elliptic seepage theory, the seepage field which has led by a vertical well with horizontal fractures is...

Permeability can be directly measured using cores taken from the reservoir in the laboratory. Due to high cost associated with coring, cores are available in a limited number of wells in a field. Many empirical models, statistical methods, and intelligent techniques were suggested to predict permeability in un-cored wells from easy-to-obtain and frequent data such as wireline logs. The main obj...

In Image upscaling, a higher resolution image is processed from an available low resolution image. There are numerous scenarios and applications where image upscaling is required and performed. The paper proposes a simple image scaling algorithm and implements it with a fuzzy variant of the supervised ART neural network, ARTMAP. The method has been compared with nearest neighbor interpolation, ...

Inflow control devices (ICD), which prevent water breakthrough by controlling the inflow profile of a well, have been used successfully in many oilfields. This paper will introduce a new discovery and an unsuccessful example. Moreover, this paper investigates meticulously and thoroughly to find the application conditions of the new discovery. Based on permeability rush coefficient and permeabil...

Biofilm growth changes many physical properties of porous media such as porosity, permeability and mass transport parameters. The growth depends on various environmental conditions, and in particular, on flow rates. Modeling the evolution of such properties is difficult both at the porescale where the phase morphology can be distinguished, as well as during upscaling to the corescale effective ...

Aggregation methods are the most common way of upscaling land cover maps. To analyze the impact of land cover mapping error on upscaling agricultural maps, we utilized the Cropland Data Layer (CDL) data with corresponding confidence level data and simulated eight levels of error using a Monte Carlo simulation for two Agriculture Statistic Districts (ASD) in the U.S.A. The results of the simulat...

Abstract Fluid flow through the brittle crust is primarily controlled by capability of fracture networks to provide pathways for fluid transport. The dominant permeability orientation within fractured rock masses has been consistently correlated with development intersections; an observation also made at meso‐regional scale. Despite importance attributed intersections in promoting flow, magnitu...