Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Sedimentary Rocks based on a Grain to Grain Parametric Cohesive Contact Model

    公开(公告)号:US20220398807A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-15

    申请号:US17342817

    申请日:2021-06-09

    Abstract: Disclosed are computer implemented techniques for conducting a simulation of physical properties of a porous medium. The features include receiving a micro-CT 3D image that captures a representative elemental volume of the porous medium, the porous medium defined as having mineral types and fluid types with individual grains and grain to grain contacts, labeling the micro-CT 3D image as individual voxels according to mineral and fluid types and labeling the mineral type voxels as belonging to separated and fixed individual grains. The features also include transforming the labeled voxels into an unstructured conformal mesh representation for all grains and applying the unstructured conformal mesh representation to a parametric cohesive contact engine, with the parametric cohesive contact engine executing a parametric cohesive contact model that has an adjustable parameter, a critical separation δ0 conditioned according to consolidation level.

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