Imperial College Consortium on
Pore-Scale Modelling
Annual Review 11th January 2013
Martin Blunt
Department of Earth Science and Engineering
Imperial College London
Agenda
9:30am
Coffee
10:00am Martin Blunt: Welcome and review of progress
10:15am Branko Bijeljic: The nature of transport in heterogeneous porous media
11:15pm Zaki Al-Nahari: Simulation of reactive transport on pore-space images
11:45am Edo Boek: Pore-scale events to relative permeability using micro-models and
lattice Boltzmann simulations
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Ali Raeini: Direct simulation of multiphase flow on pore-space images: a
volume of fluid approach
2:15pm Joe Jordan and Rafi Blumenfeld: Statistical mechanics for structure-property
relations in 3D: Formulation and tests
3:00pm Matthew Andrew: Imaging and analysis of reservoir condition displacements at
the pore scale
3:45pm
Discussion and close
6:30pm
Dinner: Maroush II, South Kensington
Reporting and new ideas for 2013
All our publications, theses, reports and presentations are available on our
website:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/earthscienceandengineering/research/perm/po
rescalemodelling
• Now extending work to study shale gas at the nano-scale.
• Reactive transport and coupling with pore-scale imaging.
• Flow-based network extraction.
• More emphasis on validation and direct pore-space computation.
Personnel and projects
Total-sponsored project on network extraction. Ali Raeini to continue
as a post-doc.
Current group:
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Martin Blunt, Professor of Petroleum Engineering – overall supervision.
Branko Bijeljic, Research Fellow – dispersion and reactive transport in porous
media.
Edo Boek, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering – fundamentals of flow in
porous media and wettability.
Rafi Blumenfeld, Research Fellow – statistical analysis of granular packs.
Ali Raeini – 3rd year PhD student – Multiphase flow on pore-space images.
Zaki Al-Nahari – 3rd year PhD student – Reactive transport.
João Paulo Nunes – 1st year PhD student – Reactive transport and multiphase
flow.
Chamsi Bouhafs – 1st year PhD student – Pore-scale modelling of shale gas.
(Remaining) challenges
• Dealing with data over a range of scales. How to have a
representative image or network.
• Computational efficiency on new platforms. Modelling multi-billion
cell problems. Best use of parallel and GPU processing.
• Improved network extraction and modelling. How reliable are our
extraction algorithms? Improvement in network shapes, layer stability
and pore-filling processes.
• Wettability characterization and pore-scale verification. How do
we assign contact angle on a pore-by-pore basis? Can we use porescale imaging to provide rigorous validation of our modelling?
• What do we use pore-scale modelling for? Nature of predictability;
emphasis on insight into displacement mechanisms.
Many thanks
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