DETERMINING FLUID FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF POROUS MEDIUMS

    公开(公告)号:WO2019140108A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-18

    申请号:PCT/US2019/013079

    申请日:2019-01-10

    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.

    MULTI-PHASE FLOW VISUALIZATIONS BASED ON FLUID OCCUPATION TIME

    公开(公告)号:WO2018140704A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-02

    申请号:PCT/US2018/015408

    申请日:2018-01-26

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for visualizing the behavior of flow of two or more fluid phases, wherein a fluid phase behavior is represented in a visualization. One of the methods includes determining an occupation time, which is the amount of elapsed time from when a fluid phase first occupies a particular location until a second time. The method includes generating data for a visualization, with a location in the visualization corresponding to the particular location, and with the generated data for that location in the visualization indicating the occupation time.

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