. Tilke, P. Digital Petrophysics: Imaging, Modeling, and Experimental Challenges Related to Porous Media in Oil Fields, pages 769-790. CRC Press, 3 edition, 2016.
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The complex interaction of liquids, gases, and solids at the pore scale is of interest in many areas of geoscience including oil and gas production, enhanced oil recovery, hydraulic fracturing, analysis of shale oil and shale gas, and carbon sequestration. This chapter presents the background and an overview of the rapidly evolving field of digital petrophysics: the imaging and modeling of porous media in the oil field along with experimental issues related to their understanding. Modeling multiphase fluid flow at the pore scale gives us much insight into the physics at nanometer and micrometer scales. However, when interpreting and modeling porous media in the oil field, one must consider the wide spectrum of scales that must be addressed and the challenges in reconciling the physics and geology at these different scales. An overview of the digital imaging workflow with an emphasis on x-ray computed tomography (CT) is presented. This is followed by a discussion of the various elements of the digital petrophysics workflow that includes imaging, image processing, and the modeling of transport properties. A review of experimental approaches to imaging dynamic multiphase interactions at the microscopic level during drainage and imbibition follows. Finally, some of the challenges involved in relating studies conducted at the pore scale to the phenomena observed at the macroscopic reservoir scale are addressed.
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  pages={769-790},
  author={Tilke, Peter},
  title={Digital Petrophysics: Imaging, Modeling, and Experimental Challenges Related to Porous Media in Oil Fields},
  file={/Users/tilke/Documents/ReadCube Media/Untitled Article (2017-05-10T15-33-21Z).pdf},
  editor={Vafai, Kambiz},
  abstract={The complex interaction of liquids, gases, and solids at the pore scale is of interest in many areas of geoscience including oil and gas production, enhanced oil recovery, hydraulic fracturing, analysis of shale oil and shale gas, and carbon sequestration. This chapter presents the background and an overview of the rapidly evolving field of digital petrophysics: the imaging and modeling of porous media in the oil field along with experimental issues related to their understanding. Modeling multiphase fluid flow at the pore scale gives us much insight into the physics at nanometer and micrometer scales. However, when interpreting and modeling porous media in the oil field, one must consider the wide spectrum of scales that must be addressed and the challenges in reconciling the physics and geology at these different scales. An overview of the digital imaging workflow with an emphasis on x-ray computed tomography {(CT)} is presented. This is followed by a discussion of the various elements of the digital petrophysics workflow that includes imaging, image processing, and the modeling of transport properties. A review of experimental approaches to imaging dynamic multiphase interactions at the microscopic level during drainage and imbibition follows. Finally, some of the challenges involved in relating studies conducted at the pore scale to the phenomena observed at the macroscopic reservoir scale are addressed.},
  year={2016},
  isbn={978-1-4398-8554-3},
  edition={3},
  publisher={{CRC} Press}
}

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