Title: Relations between evolving micro-structures and effective transport properties
Speaker: Carl Fredrik Berg
Seminar Date: Sep 18 2024
Registration Opens: Sep 08 2024 – Sep 19 2024
Time: 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM (US CDT)
Meeting/Webinar Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7424226208994277728
Contact: Artur Posenato Garcia (VP Downtown, SPWLA Houston Chapter)
Corresponding: vpdowntown@spwla-houston.org
Fees: FREE
ABSTRACT:
Effective transport properties of micro-structures, e.g., the pore structure or the fluid distribution within a pore structure, can be decomposed into morphological descriptors such as tortuosity, characteristic length, and constrictivity. In this talk, we will consider evolving micro-structures. One example is the changing pore structure during a diagenetic process. Another example is changing fluid geometry during a drainage process. We will present how the morphological descriptors change with changing micro-structure, which descriptors dominate the change in effective transport, and describe effective transport properties close to the percolation threshold.
BIOGRAPHY:
Carl Fredrik Berg is a professor working in the research group for Reservoir engineering and petrophysics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He received his Ph.D. in algebra from NTNU in 2006. He has worked as a lecturer at NTNU, a reservoir engineer at Statoil/Equinor between 2007 and 2016, before starting at NTNU in 2017. His main research areas have been within digital rock modeling of flow in porous media, upscaling of transport processes and optimization of reservoir simulation models.
