In this dissertation several unresolved issues related to reservoir characterization and simulation techniques are investigated so that improvements can be made in their reliability and efficiency. Geostatistical techniques ...

Most naturally-occurring permeable media are heterogeneous on too small of a scale to include all the detailed heterogeneity into a numerical simulation. Instead, lumping the effects of those' heterogeneities in a form ...

Poor vertical and areal sweep because of channeling of injected water to high-permeability zones leads to significant amounts of bypassed oil in many waterfloods. Chemical treatments involving injection of a gel formed ...

The objective of this project is to relate the microscopic structure of porous media to macroscopic properties, such as porosity, permeability, dispersion coefficient, and chemical reactivity. In the first part of this ...