Ohmic conductivity of a compacted silty clay

VA Rinaldi, GA Cuestas - Journal of Geotechnical and …, 2002 - ascelibrary.org
In its natural state, loess can be considered as an unstable soil, which develops large
deformations when moistened. In Argentina, loess is used in most Geotechnical …

Effect of sub‐core scale heterogeneities on acoustic and electrical properties of a reservoir rock: A CO2 flooding experiment of brine saturated sandstone in a …

BL Alemu, E Aker, M Soldal, Ø Johnsen… - Geophysical …, 2013 - earthdoc.org
The effect of sub‐core scale heterogeneity on fluid distribution pattern, and the electrical and
acoustic properties of a typical reservoir rock was studied by performing drainage and …

Connectivity theory–a new approach to modeling non-Archie rocks

B Montaron - Petrophysics-The SPWLA Journal of Formation …, 2009 - onepetro.org
So-called Archie rocks are characterized by a resistivity index (RI) versus water saturation
that plots as a straight line on log-log scale, the line's slope being equal to-n where n is the …

Pore connectivity, electrical conductivity, and partial water saturation: network simulations

M Li, YB Tang, Y Bernabé, JZ Zhao… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The electrical conductivity of brine‐saturated rock is predominantly dependent on the
geometry and topology of the pore space. When a resistive second phase (eg, air in the …

From computed microtomography images to resistivity index calculations of heterogeneous carbonates using a dual-porosity pore-network approach: Influence of …

D Bauer, S Youssef, M Han, S Bekri, E Rosenberg… - Physical Review E …, 2011 - APS
Standard reservoir evaluations are based on Archie's law relating the average water
saturation to the average electrical resistivity by R ind= S w-2. However, especially in the …

Universal scaling of gas diffusion in porous media

B Ghanbarian, AG Hunt - Water Resources Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Gas diffusion modeling in percolation clusters provides a theoretical framework to address
gas transport in porous materials and soils. Applying this methodology, above the …

Wettability of carbonate reservoir rocks: a comparative analysis

M Faramarzi-Palangar, A Mirzaei-Paiaman… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Various methods have been proposed for the evaluation of reservoir rock wettability. Among
them, Amott–Harvey and USBM are the most commonly used approaches in industry. Some …

Theoretical Insight Into the Empirical Tortuosity‐Connectivity Factor in the Burdine‐Brooks‐Corey Water Relative Permeability Model

B Ghanbarian, MA Ioannidis… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A model commonly applied to the estimation of water relative permeability krw in porous
media is the Burdine‐Brooks‐Corey model, which relies on a simplified picture of pores as a …

Electrical conductivity of partially saturated packings of particles

B Ghanbarian, M Sahimi - Transport in Porous Media, 2017 - Springer
We address the problem of predicting saturation-dependent electrical conductivity σ σ in
packings of particles during drainage and imbibition. The effective-medium approximation …

Influence of CO2 on rock physics properties in typical reservoir rock: A CO2 flooding experiment of brine saturated sandstone in a CT-scanner

BL Alemu, E Aker, M Soldal, Ø Johnsen, P Aagaard - Energy procedia, 2011 - Elsevier
Laboratory core flooding experiment was run to investigate the joint use of electrical
resistivity, ultrasonic velocities and 3D images of fluid distribution to improve current …