Ebook: Percolation Models for Transport in Porous Media: With Applications to Reservoir Engineering

It is an honour and pleasure to write a foreword to this useful and interesting book. Authors are very well known researchers who pioneered percolation modelling of transport in porous media in Russia from the early 80-th till nowadays. The main scope of the work presented in the book was developed when bright papers by A. Aharony, H.T. Davis, F.A.L. Dullien, A.A. Heiba, R.G. Larson, R. Lenormand, M.Sahimi, L.E. Scriven, D. Stauffer, M. Yanuka, Y.C.Yortsos were not available at the "other" side of the Iron Curtain. Nowadays hundreds of works and papers with the "percolation" keywords ap­ pear in petroleum and related applied research areas. The book will take a re­ markable place in the "petroleum percolation" bibliography. There are two important features of novelty in the monograph presented. First of all the authors developed a generalization of percolation clusters theory for grids with varying conductivity. Technique of representation of an infinite cluster as an hierarchial set of trees (so called r-chain model) allows to present conductivity of a stochastic grid in a closed form of explicit formulae. This method differs from those known in the West, such as effective media theory, solutions for the Bethe-lattice, etc. It has his own area of successful appli­ cations.

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This book presents a new percolation theory for fluid flow and electric current in heterogeneous porous media. Several models for different types of flow are developed. These models are applied in multi-phase flow in porous media, petrophysical investigations of rock properties, and effects of electric current treatment and acoustic treatment on well production.
Audience: This volume is of interest to petroleum engineers, scientists and engineers in reservoir simulation, reservoir characterization, chemical engineering, petroleum and chemical software engineering, postgraduates and PhD students in petroleum engineering, geophysics, geology and chemical engineering.

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This book presents a new percolation theory for fluid flow and electric current in heterogeneous porous media. Several models for different types of flow are developed. These models are applied in multi-phase flow in porous media, petrophysical investigations of rock properties, and effects of electric current treatment and acoustic treatment on well production.
Audience: This volume is of interest to petroleum engineers, scientists and engineers in reservoir simulation, reservoir characterization, chemical engineering, petroleum and chemical software engineering, postgraduates and PhD students in petroleum engineering, geophysics, geology and chemical engineering.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Percolation Model of Micro Heterogeneous Media....Pages 7-22
Percolation Models of One-Phase Flow in Rocks of Different Types....Pages 23-39
Percolation Model of Fluid Flow in Heterogeneous Media....Pages 41-56
Percolation Model of Steady State Multiphase Flow in Porous Media....Pages 57-87
Percolation Model of Non-Steady State Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media....Pages 89-104
Determination of Pore Size Distribution in Grained and Cavernous Rocks....Pages 105-127
Methods for Determining Parameters of Fractured Rocks....Pages 129-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-141
Conductivity of a Heterogeneous Medium under Impulse and Alternating Current....Pages 143-155
Changing Conductivity and Pore Space Structure with Electric Current. Experiments....Pages 157-166
Changing Well Production with Electric Treatment....Pages 167-179
Gas Colmatation Effect during Electric Action on Saturated Porous Media....Pages 181-198
Effects of Acoustic Waves on Irreversible Change of Permeability of a Saturated Porous Medium....Pages 199-213
Effect of Acoustic Action on Well Production....Pages 215-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-243

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This book presents a new percolation theory for fluid flow and electric current in heterogeneous porous media. Several models for different types of flow are developed. These models are applied in multi-phase flow in porous media, petrophysical investigations of rock properties, and effects of electric current treatment and acoustic treatment on well production.
Audience: This volume is of interest to petroleum engineers, scientists and engineers in reservoir simulation, reservoir characterization, chemical engineering, petroleum and chemical software engineering, postgraduates and PhD students in petroleum engineering, geophysics, geology and chemical engineering.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Percolation Model of Micro Heterogeneous Media....Pages 7-22
Percolation Models of One-Phase Flow in Rocks of Different Types....Pages 23-39
Percolation Model of Fluid Flow in Heterogeneous Media....Pages 41-56
Percolation Model of Steady State Multiphase Flow in Porous Media....Pages 57-87
Percolation Model of Non-Steady State Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media....Pages 89-104
Determination of Pore Size Distribution in Grained and Cavernous Rocks....Pages 105-127
Methods for Determining Parameters of Fractured Rocks....Pages 129-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-141
Conductivity of a Heterogeneous Medium under Impulse and Alternating Current....Pages 143-155
Changing Conductivity and Pore Space Structure with Electric Current. Experiments....Pages 157-166
Changing Well Production with Electric Treatment....Pages 167-179
Gas Colmatation Effect during Electric Action on Saturated Porous Media....Pages 181-198
Effects of Acoustic Waves on Irreversible Change of Permeability of a Saturated Porous Medium....Pages 199-213
Effect of Acoustic Action on Well Production....Pages 215-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-243
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