SUMMARY A key ingredient in the simulation of ow in porous media is the accurate determination of the velocities that drive the ow. The large scale irregularities of the geology, such as faults, fractures, and layers suggest the use of irregular grids in the simulation. Work has been done in applying the nite volume element (FVE) methodology as developed by McCormick in conjunction with mixed m...

Deep porous reservoirs are subject to charge and discharge of fluids (oil, gas or water), either naturally or induced by human exploitation. This leads to a variation in pressure inside the reservoir and consequently to a deformation of the overlying material. The knowledge of the ground surface displacements allows inferring the fluid migrations and the hydromechanical properties in the porous...

1) Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-84506 Bratislava, Slovakia (e-mail: [email protected]) 2) University of Trnava, Faculty of Education, Department of Biology, Priemyselná 4, P.O. Box 9, SK-91843 Trnava, Slovakia (e-mail: [email protected]) 3) Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (CSIC), Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, General S...

We consider optimization of computational grids for petroleum reservoir flow simulations. In this context grid quality is determined by two independent error sources. On the one hand there is a loss of precision caused by upscaling of geological data from the fine geological grid to the coarser computational grid, and on the other hand there are numerical errors induced by a non-regular computa...

Roughened surfaces are increasingly being used for dental implant applications as the enlarged contact area improves bone cell anchorage, thereby facilitating osseointegration. However, the additional surface area also entails a higher risk for the development of biofilm associated infections, an etiologic factor for many dental ailments, including peri-implantitis. To overcome this problem, we...

For wave propagation at low frequencies in a porous medium, the Gassmann-Domenico relations are well-established for homogeneous partial saturation by a liquid. They provide the correct relations for seismic velocities in terms of constituent bulk and shear moduli, solid and fluid densities, porosity and saturation. It has not been possible, however, to invert these relations easily to determin...

Wettability of pores plays an important role in two-phase flow in porous media. In the case of oil recovery, it has been found from both laboratory experiments and field tests that deviation of reservoir wettability from strongly water-wet conditions either can increase or decrease in oil recovery efficiency which indicates a possible range of wettability change [1]. In this present work, the e...

  Diffusivity equation commonly used for pressure distribution prediction in porous media results from substituting equation of state and continuity equation in Navier-Stokes momentum equation. From mathematical point of view this equation format shows infinite propagation speed for pressure pulse through porous media, which is physically impossible. This issue may caused by numerous assumption...

The routine measurement of direction-dependent reservoir rock properties like permeability often takes place along the axial direction of core samples. As permeability is a tensor property of porous materials, it should be fully described by a tensor matrix or by three main permeabilities in principal directions. Due to compaction, cementation, and other lithification processes, which take plac...

the main purpose of this investigation is to study the effect of near miscible co2 injection in different porous mediums on both lab and field scales. this effect can be traced by the change of two-phase gas-oil relative permeability curves. in this work, the experiments have been performed on three rock types (i.e. sandstone, dolomite, and artificial fractured sandstone) based on an incrementa...