1. Annual Review 13th January 2014
Imperial College Consortium on Pore-Scale Modelling
Annual Review 13th January 2014
Martin Blunt
Department of Earth Science and Engineering
Imperial College London

2. Agenda
9:30am Coffee
10:00am Martin Blunt: Welcome and review of progress 
10:15am Matthew Andrew: Reservoir-condition pore-scale imaging: contact angle, wettability, dynamics and trapping
11:00am  Kamal Singh: Pore-scale imaging of fluid flow through porous media using synchrotron X-ray mirco-tomography
11:30am Joao Nunes: Pore-scale modelling of dissolution and comparison with experiment
12:00pm Zaki Al-Nahari: Simulation of reactive transport on pore-space images
12:30pm Lunch
1:45pm Branko Bijeljic: Giga-scale simulation and analysis
2:15pm  Ali Raeini: Direct simulation of multiphase flow and the balance of forces
3:00pm Rafi Blumenfeld: Statistical mechanics for structure-property relations in 3D: Formulation and tests
3:30pm Edo Boek: Pore-scale events to relative permeability using micro-models and lattice Boltzmann simulations
4:00pm Tarik Saif: Planned research on unconventional oil and gas
4:15pm  Discussion and close
6:30pm Dinner: Polish Club

3. Reporting and new ideas for 2014
All our publications, theses, reports and presentations are available on our website:
Giga-scale imaging, simulation and analysis.
Reservoir-condition pore-scale imaging of displacement and reaction coupled with direct simulation of these processes.
Pore-scale analysis of force balances and rigorous pore-to-network upscaling.
More emphasis on validation and direct pore-space computation.

4. Personnel and projects
Current group:
Martin Blunt, Professor of Petroleum Engineering – overall supervision.
Branko Bijeljic, Research Fellow – dispersion and reactive transport in porous media.
Edo Boek, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering – fundamentals of flow in porous media and wettability.
Rafi Blumenfeld, Research Fellow – statistical analysis of granular packs. 
Ali Raeini – Post-doc, multiphase flow on pore-space images (Total project).
Zaki Al-Nahari – 3rd year PhD student – Reactive transport.
Matthew Andrew – 3rd year PhD student – Pore-scale imaging.
João Paulo Nunes – 2nd year PhD student – Reactive transport and multiphase flow.
Tarik Saif– 1st year PhD student – Oil shale.
Plus interaction with the Qatar programme (Kamal Singh etc).

5. Challenges from 2013
Dealing with data over a range of scales. How to have a representative image or network: developing multiscale – macro and micro-porosity – networks and a generalized network generation methof.
Computational efficiency on new platforms. Continue to improve computational efficiency – billion-cell simulation.
Improved network extraction and modelling. How reliable are our extraction algorithms? Use pore-level direct simulation to upscale properties rigorously.
Wettability characterization and pore-scale verification. Pore-by-pore contact angle measurement in situ at reservoir conditions.
What do we use pore-scale modelling for? Balance of forces, start of upscaling, identification of the generic nature of transport.

6. Many thanks

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