Image processing of multiphase images obtained via X‐ray microtomography: A review

S Schlüter, A Sheppard, K Brown… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Easier access to X‐ray microtomography (μCT) facilities has provided much new insight
from high‐resolution imaging for various problems in porous media research. Pore space …

Predicting colloid transport through saturated porous media: A critical review

IL Molnar, WP Johnson, JI Gerhard… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding and predicting colloid transport and retention in water‐saturated porous
media is important for the protection of human and ecological health. Early applications of …

Versatile and efficient pore network extraction method using marker-based watershed segmentation

JT Gostick - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Obtaining structural information from tomographic images of porous materials is a critical
component of porous media research. Extracting pore networks is particularly valuable since …

X-ray imaging and analysis techniques for quantifying pore-scale structure and processes in subsurface porous medium systems

D Wildenschild, AP Sheppard - Advances in Water resources, 2013 - Elsevier
We report here on recent developments and advances in pore-scale X-ray tomographic
imaging of subsurface porous media. Our particular focus is on immiscible multi-phase fluid …

Multi-scale, micro-computed tomography-based pore network models to simulate drainage in heterogeneous rocks

T Bultreys, L Van Hoorebeke, V Cnudde - Advances in Water resources, 2015 - Elsevier
The multi-phase flow behavior of complex rocks with broad pore size distributions often
digresses from classical relations. Pore-scale simulation methods can be a great tool to …

Droplet fragmentation: 3D imaging of a previously unidentified pore-scale process during multiphase flow in porous media

T Pak, IB Butler, S Geiger… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Using X-ray computed microtomography, we have visualized and quantified the in situ
structure of a trapped nonwetting phase (oil) in a highly heterogeneous carbonate rock after …

Linking pore-scale interfacial curvature to column-scale capillary pressure

RT Armstrong, ML Porter, D Wildenschild - Advances in Water resources, 2012 - Elsevier
Synchrotron-based tomographic datasets of oil–water drainage and imbibition cycles have
been analyzed to quantify phase saturations and interfacial curvature as well as connected …

Lattice-Boltzmann simulations of the capillary pressure–saturation–interfacial area relationship for porous media

ML Porter, MG Schaap, D Wildenschild - Advances in Water Resources, 2009 - Elsevier
Hysteresis in the relationship between capillary pressure (Pc), wetting phase saturation (Sw)
and nonwetting–wetting interfacial area per volume (anw) is investigated using multiphase …

Critical capillary number: Desaturation studied with fast X‐ray computed microtomography

RT Armstrong, A Georgiadis, H Ott… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
For subsurface flow, the correct definition for the balance of viscous and capillary forces, the
so‐called capillary number (Ca), which predicts the mobilization of nonwetting phase, has …

Effect of pore structure on the producibility of tight-gas sandstones

A Sakhaee-Pour, SL Bryant - AAPG bulletin, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) is one of the most significant properties of tight-gas
sandstone reservoirs, but it remains difficult to predict. Estimated ultimate recovery is …