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Prediction Of Effective Permeability In Porous Media Based On Spontaneous Imbibition Effect

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  • JIANCHAO CAI

    (Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China;
    State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, P. R. China)

  • LIJUN YOU

    (State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, P. R. China)

  • XIANGYUN HU

    (Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China)

  • JING WANG

    (Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China)

  • RONGHUA PENG

    (Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources of Ministry of Education, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China)

Abstract

Permeability is an important parameter for characterizing the transport properties (e.g. heat and mass transfer) of porous media. It is one of the crucial issues that the permeability of porous media is exactly and quickly decided in many fields such as reservoir engineering, groundwater engineering and composite material modeling. Spontaneous imbibition is a fundamental and ubiquitous natural phenomenon extensively existing in a variety of processes. In this paper, the relationships between the height and weight of imbibition versus the time are derived based on Darcy's law, and a simple method for predicting effective permeability of porous media using spontaneous imbibition effect is proposed, including expressions for permeabilities of artificial and natural porous media. The validity of the proposed models is analysed and tested by experimental data.

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  • Jianchao Cai & Lijun You & Xiangyun Hu & Jing Wang & Ronghua Peng, 2012. "Prediction Of Effective Permeability In Porous Media Based On Spontaneous Imbibition Effect," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(07), pages 1-12.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:23:y:2012:i:07:n:s0129183112500544
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183112500544
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