Effective permeability of multifractal porous media

✍ Scribed by Antoine Saucier

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 688 KB
• Volume: 183
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90290-7

✦ Synopsis

We show how the real space renormalization group method can be used to calculate analytically the scaling exponents of the effective absolute permeability in multifractal porous media. The permeability fields considered are deterministic and random multifractals constructed with multiplicative processes. We discuss the implications of the results on the understanding of fluid ftow in oil reservoirs.