Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determining fluid flow characteristics of porous mediums
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Application No.: US16243285Application Date: 2019-01-09
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Publication No.: US11714040B2Publication Date: 2023-08-01
- Inventor: Bernd Crouse , David M. Freed , Ashraful Islam
- Applicant: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
- Applicant Address: US RI Johnston
- Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
- Current Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: US RI Johnston
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G01N13/00
- IPC: G01N13/00 ; G01N15/08 ; G01N33/24 ; G06F30/20 ; G01N23/00 ; G01N23/046 ; G01N23/04 ; G01N23/02 ; G06F30/28 ; G06F111/10

Abstract:
Techniques including methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed. These techniques include computer instructions that are encoded on computer storage media for determining wettability. The techniques use a numerical aging computation process to provide a representation of a wettability alteration of a physical rock sample in the presence of at least two fluids is disclosed. The techniques include retrieving a representation of a physical rock sample, the representation including pore space and grain space data corresponding to the physical rock sample, calculating local curvature for each surface in the pore space, determining from the calculated local curvature whether water-film breakage will occur, and classifying the wettability of the physical rock based on the determination of water-film breakage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190212241A1 DETERMINING FLUID FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF POROUS MEDIUMS Public/Granted day:2019-07-11
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