期刊
TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA
卷 94, 期 3, 页码 859-881出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-0028-7
关键词
Porous media reconstruction; Micro-CT imaging; Pore network modeling; Multiple-point statistics; Probability perturbation method; Lattice-Boltzmann method
The construction of a faithful 3D pore space model of a porous medium that could reproduce the macroscopic behavior of that medium is of great interest in various fields including medicine, material science, hydrology and petroleum engineering. A computationally efficient algorithm is developed that uses the probability perturbation method and sequential multiple-point statistics simulations to generate 3D stochastic and equiprobable representations of random porous media when only a 2D thin section image is available. By employing the probability perturbation method as a gradual deformation technique, the pore patterns of a single 2D image are deformed to generate a series of 2D stochastically simulated images. The 3D pore structure is then generated by simply stacking the 2D-simulated images. The quality of the 3D reconstruction is critically dependent on the rate of deformation and a simple general procedure for choosing this parameter is presented. Various criteria such as porosity, two-point auto-correlation function, multiple-point connectivity function, local percolation probability, absolute permeability obtained by lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM), formation factor and two-phase relative permeability calculations are used to validate the results. The method is tested on two random porous solids; Berea Sandstone and synthetic Silica, for which directly measured 3D micro-CT images are available. The stochastically reconstructed 3D pore space preserves the low- and high-order spatial statistics, the macroscopic flow properties and the microstructure of the 3D micro-CT images.
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