Transport Properties of Partially-Saturated Rocks – Digital Rock Approach

H038 TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF PARTIALLY- SATURATED ROCKS: DIGITAL ROCK APPROACH Abstract Fluid Flow Properties NMR Response Nonlinear and coupled processes Digital Rock Geometry f(minerals fluids t) Numerical Simulation Techniques (Lattice-Boltzmann FEM Parallelization) Electrical Properties Elastic Properties Figure 1: Schematic diagram of computational rock physics framework. 1 We investigated transport properties in partially-saturated rocks by numerical experiments. Multiple pore-scale simulators were used on digital rocks: single- and two-phase Lattice- Boltzmann flow simulators and FEM electrical property simulator. Partially-saturated rock samples were created through two-phase flow simulations. We used both steady-state and unsteady-state simulations to compare static and dynamic situations. We then