Fluid flow and mass transport in geological materials are crucial in diverse Earth science
applications. To fully understand the behavior of geological materials in this context, the …

Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide variety of phenomena with applications to many disciplines, ranging from condensed …

Abstract Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), two
easily acquired and widely applied image acquisition and analysis methods, have rarely …

Hydrocarbon production, gas recovery from shale, CO2 storage and water management
have a common scientific underpinning: multiphase flow in porous media. This book …

Pore-scale imaging and modelling–digital core analysis–is becoming a routine service in
the oil and gas industry, and has potential applications in contaminant transport and carbon …

The pore-grain characteristics of shale oil reservoir rocks are complex: nano-size pore
throats, multi-scale of pore size and topology, and rich in organic matter. Generally, shale oil …

Porous structures of shales are reconstructed using the markov chain monte carlo (MCMC)
method based on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of shale samples from …

A shale matrix is too tight to be described using conventional methods, and digital core
technology is becoming an alternative method. Because both organic and inorganic pores …

Digital rock technology is becoming essential in reservoir engineering and petrophysics.
Three-dimensional digital rock reconstruction, image resolution enhancement, image …

The complex and multiscale nature of shale gas transport imposes new challenges to the
already well-developed techniques for conventional reservoirs, especially digital core …