1. Annual Review 11th January 2015
Imperial College Consortium on Pore-Scale Modelling
Annual Review 11th January 2015
Martin Blunt
Department of Earth Science and Engineering
Imperial College London

2. Agenda 9:00am Coffee 9:30am Welcome and introduction, Martin Blunt
9:45am Generalized pore-network modelling, Ali Raeini
10:30am Direct simulation of multiphase flow on pore-space images, Mosayeb Shams
11:00am Imaging, infiltration and water distribution, Lewis Lin
11:30am In situ pore-scale characterization of contact angle, Ahmed Alratrout
12:00 Semi-analytic solutions for spontaneous imbibition, Hasan Nourdeen 12:30 pm Lunch 1:45pm Introduction to reactive transport, Branko Bijeljic
2:00pm Pore-scale simulations of fluid-fluid reactive transport, Zaki Al Nahari
2:30pm Pore-scale simulations of fluid-solid reactive transport, Joao Nunes
3:00pm A general pore-scale reactive transport simulator, Thomas de Oliveira
3:30pm Upscaling reactive transport and propagators, Bagus Muljadi
4:00pm  In situ pore-scale imaging of oil shale recovery, Tarik Saif
4:30pm Discussion and close
6:30pm Dinner: Polish Club

3. Reporting and new ideas for 2015
All our publications, theses, reports and presentations are available on our website:
Application of reservoir-condition pore-space imaging to measure contact angle, curvature and reaction.
Emphasis on reactive transport imaging and modelling: pore-by-pore comparison of experiment and simulation.
Combining direct simulation methods into upscaled generalized network models.
Billion plus cell simulation now routine.

4. Personnel and projects
Current group:
Martin Blunt, Professor of Petroleum Engineering – overall supervision and fundamental studies of three-phase flow.
Branko Bijeljic, Senior Research Fellow – dispersion and reactive transport in porous media.
Ali Raeini – Post-doctoral researcher – multiphase flow on pore-space images. 
Bagus Muljadi – Post-doctoral researcher – non-Darcy flows and upscaling. 
Lewis Lin – Post-doctoral researcher – pore-scale imaging of water invasion. 
Zaki Al-Hashmi – 4th year PhD student – reactive transport. 
João Paulo Nunes – 3rd year PhD student – reactive transport and multiphase flow.
Tarik Saif – 3rd year PhD student – studies of oil shale.
Yousef Al-Khulaifi – 2nd year PhD student – pore-scale imaging of reactive transport.
Hassan Nourdeen – 2nd year PhD student – upscaling relative permeability.
Ahmed Alratrout – 2nd year PhD student – measurement and modelling of contact angle.
Mosayeb Shams – 1st year PhD student – direct multiphase simulation.
Thomas de Oliveira – 1st year PhD student – reactive transport modelling.
Amer Alhammadi – 1st year PhD student – in situ imaging of contact angle.
Plus interaction with the Qatar programme (Kamal Singh, Hannah Menke, Yousef Al-Khalaifi, Ying Gao etc).

5. Challenges for 2016
Applications of pore-scale imaging. Can we make this a routine tool for reservoir management? How to use pore-scale information.
Validation of a generalized pore-scale modelling and upscaling. View a network model as a generic upscaling tool, using direct simulation or experiment to assign effective properties. Validate against data at different scales.
Extensions to more complex reactive transport. How to go beyond particle-based methods, or simple reactions to combine geochemistry and pore-scale transport.

6. Many thanks