Improvement of predictions of petrophysical transport behavior using three-dimensional finite volume element model with micro-CT images

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    摘要 Duetotheintricatestructureofporousmedia,themacroscopicpetrophysicaltransportpropertiessuchasthepermeabilityandthesaturationusedforthereservoirpredictionalsoshowaverycomplexnatureandaredifficulttoobtain.Thus,abetterunderstandingoftheinfluenceoftherockstructureonthepetrophysicaltransportpropertiesisimportant.Inthispaper,wepresentauniversalfinitevolumeelementmodelingapproachtoreconstructthethreedimensionalporemodelsfromthemicro-CTimagesbasedonthecommercialsoftwareMimicsandICEM,priortotheporenetworkmodelbasedonsomebasicassumptions.Moreover,tetrafinitevolumeelementsarepileduptorealizethegeometryreconstructionandthemeshingprocess.Comparedwiththeformermethods,thisprocessavoidsthetremendouslylargestoragerequirementforthereconstructedporousgeometryandthefailuresofmeshingthesecomplexpolygongeometries,andatthesametimeimprovesthepredictionsofpetrophysicaltransportbehaviors.ThemodelistestedontwoBereasandstones,foursandstonesamples,twocarbonatesamples,andoneSyntheticSilica.Single-andtwophaseflowsimulationsareconductedbasedontheNavier-StokesequationsintheFluentsoftware.Goodagreementsareobtainedonboththenetworkstructuresandpredictedsingle-andtwo-phasetransportpropertiesagainstbenchmarkexperimentaldata.
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    出版日期 2015年02月12日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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