Research highlights

Research highlights

Our research focus is on digital rock methods, reservoir simulation, multiphase flow through porous media with applications in oil and gas industry. Our expertise incorporates both numerical and experimental methods including: finite elements, X-ray microcomputed tomography, pore network modelling, microfluidics, special core analysis, and discrete fracture network modelling. Most recently, we have developed advanced computer vision and machine learning methods for the study of rocks and predictive modelling. Here, you will find some of recent publications. For questions concerning our works please contact the corresponding authors. We are happy to collaborate on projects related to the works presented below and to provide additional information. In the following links we also provide videos and/or additional supporting information for the posted publications.

 

Research highlights

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Critical capillary number: Desaturation studied with fast X-ray computed microtomography
Real time 3D imaging of oil recovery provides new insights into the recovery of capillary trapped oil... Publication available here
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Subsecond pore-scale displacement processes and relaxation dynamics in multiphase flow
A new approach to processing micro-CT data allows for the study of sub-second fluid/fluid displacement mechanisms during multiphase flow in porous rock... Publication available here
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Multiphase flow in porous rock imaged under dynamic conditions with fast X-ray computed microtomography
Pore-scale events in multiphase flow in porous rock have been directly imaged in real time by using fast (15 to 60 seconds) synchrotron-based X-ray computed microtomography... Publication available here
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Dynamic mesh methods for simulation of multiphase flow in fractured porous media
Control volume finite element methods and mesh adaptivity are used for numerical simulation multiphase flow in fractured reservoirs to obtain high numerical accuracy and efficiency. .. Publication available here
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Numerical and experimental modelling of flow in packed beds
The application of dynamic mesh adaptivity for accurate determination of flow in packed beds of impermeable particles is investigated... Publication available here
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Computations of permeability on micro-CT images
Numerical methods are developed for numerical prediction of permeability on micro-CT images. .. Publication available here
3D visualization of coal
Coal characterisation using micro-CT imaging
Wet and dry micro-CT imaging and Scanning Electron Microscopy are used for coal characterization. .. Publication available here
de-mineralization
Coal de-mineralization animation
Mineral phase is removed from coals and its impact of porosity and permeability is studied. .. Publication available here
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Fracture aperture measurment
Using micro-CT imaging and SEM for measuring fracture aperture.. Publication available here
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Coal cleat reconstruction using DFNs
A numerical method is developed to extract attributes of face and butt cleats and generate DFN models to represent the cleat system... Publication available here
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Microfluidic for flow in coal seams
Development of microfluidic chips based on coal cleats and studying multiphase flow of liquid and gas. Calculation of relative permeability in the microfluidic chip based on flow rate and pressure drop... Publication available here
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Digital rock analysis for accurate prediction of fractured media permeability
A novel 3D method is developed for prediction of fractured rock permeability using micro-CT imaging... Publication available here
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Adaptive mesh optimisation for simulation of viscous fingering
A novel dynamic mesh approach applied for modelling viscous fingering in oil reservoirs. .. Publication available here
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Simulation of reactive transport on micro-CT images
Efficient computations of reactive transport on different types of rocks... Publication available here
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Rough-walled discrete fracture network modelling for coal characterisation
Computations of roughness of fracture surfaces in coal and developments of RW-DFNs... Publication available here
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High-resolution simulation of dissolution in porous media
Developing parallel numerical methods for prediction of dissolution in porous media and including migration of solid particles released due to dissolution... Publication available here

coal segmentation

Coal segmentation animation
Coal cleat system from a micro-CT image is extracted using advanced image segmentation methods... Publication available here
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Cleat-scale characterisation of coal
Recent developments in micro-CT imaging and petrophysical analysis of coal are reviewed.. Publication available here
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Beyond Darcy's law: The role of phase topology and ganglion dynamics for two-fluid flow
In multiphase flow in porous media the consistent pore to Darcy scale description of two-fluid flow processes has been a long-standing challenge... Publication available here
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Effect of reaction on rock mechanical properties
Dependency of Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio on Péclet and Damköhler numbers are demonstrated... Publication available here
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Impact of mineralogical heterogeneity on reactive transport modelling
Mineral map of sandstones was acquired using QEMSCAN SEM-EDS and then multi-mineral reactive transport was applied directly on images... Publication available here
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Digital coal: Generation of fractured cores with microscale features
Generation of multiscale coal cores that have pore-scale features incorporated in them... Publication available here
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Fracture pipe network modelling based on micro-CT images of fractured coal
This imaged-based Fracture Pipe Network Model (FPNM) can give fast estimation of permeability for real fracture networks while requiring less computational cost... Publication available here