Displacement of oil and water in porous media of reservoir rocks is described by relative                      permeability curves, which are important input data for reservoir performance simulation and drive mechanism studies. Many core studies, such as multiphase relative permeability, capillary pressure and saturation exponent determination, depend on the volume fractions of multiphase flui...

[1] Commonly, a soil’s relative permeability curve is predicted from its measured water retention curve by fitting equations that share parameters between the two curves (e.g., Brooks/Corey-Mualem and van Genuchten-Mualem). We present a new approach to predict relative permeability by direct application of measured soil water retention data without any fitting procedures. The new relative perme...

We consider the behavior of immiscible and incompressible two-phase ows in a porous medium made of several rock types. Each rock type, is deened by one porosity, one absolute rock permeability ten-sor, two relative permeability curves and one capillary pressure curve. Using two-scale convergence, we get an homogenized model which governs the global behavior of the ow. In this model, macroscopic...

A new, closed-form hysteretic model of the capillary pressure-saturation and relative permeability-saturation relationship has been implemented into ITOUGH2. The hysteretic capillary pressure function is based on the van Genuchten model, with a modified version of the dependent domain model of Mualem to describe the scanning curves. Hysteresis in the relative permeability relations is considere...

accurate permeability estimation has always been a concern in determining flow units, assigning appropriate capillary pressure andrelative permeability curves to reservoir rock types, geological modeling, and dynamic simulation.acoustic method can be used as analternative and effective tool for permeability determination. in this study, a four-step approach is proposed for permeability estimati...