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ProfessorMartinBlunt

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Chair in Flow in Porous Media
 
 
 
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2.38ARoyal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

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@article{Foroughi:2021:10.1007/s11242-021-01609-y,
author = {Foroughi, S and Bijeljic, B and Blunt, MJ},
doi = {10.1007/s11242-021-01609-y},
journal = {Transport in Porous Media},
pages = {285--308},
title = {Pore-by-pore modelling, validation and prediction of waterflooding in oil-wet rocks using dynamic synchrotron data},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01609-y},
volume = {138},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We predict waterflood displacement on a pore-by-pore basis using pore network modelling. The pore structure is captured by a high-resolution image. We then use an energy balance applied to images of the displacement to assign an average contact angle, and then modify the local pore-scale contact angles in the model about this mean to match the observed displacement sequence. Two waterflooding experiments on oil-wet rocks are analysed where the displacement sequence was imaged using time-resolved synchrotron imaging. In both cases the capillary pressure in the model matches the experimentally obtained values derived from the measured interfacial curvature. We then predict relative permeability for the full saturation range. Using the optimised contact angles distributed randomly in space has little effect on the predicted capillary pressures and relative permeabilities, indicating that spatial correlation in wettability is not significant in these oil-wet samples. The calibrated model can be used to predict properties outside the range of conditions considered in the experiment.
AU  - Foroughi,S
AU  - Bijeljic,B
AU  - Blunt,MJ
DO  - 10.1007/s11242-021-01609-y
EP  - 308
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 0169-3913
SP  - 285
TI  - Pore-by-pore modelling, validation and prediction of waterflooding in oil-wet rocks using dynamic synchrotron data
T2  - Transport in Porous Media
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01609-y
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000651022100001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11242-021-01609-y
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/89447
VL  - 138
ER  -
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