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Mudstone Microstructure Evolution During Burial and Diagenesis and Effect on...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Mudstone microstructure is poorly understood even though it has a profound impact upon permeability. Mudstone permeability is critical in... -
Tracer Breakthrough, Hydraulic Properties and Fracture Networks at...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. At sub-continuum scales, pore network geometry strongly influences flow and solute transport. Fractures spaced ~0.1 to ~10m impart continuum... -
Novel Flow and Transport Models for Systems Exhibiting Non-Integer Flow Dimensions
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Modelling of flow and transport in fractured rock is severely restricted due to the need to represent fractures over a wide range of scales,... -
Quantifying the Scaling of Physical Transport in Structures Heterogeneous...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The project will develop and explore the application of scaling methods to strongly heterogeneous flow fields; investigate the loss and retention... -
The Scaling Behaviour of Fluid Flow in Rock Fractures
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Fluid flow through natural fractures depends upon the scaling behaviour of their fractually rough surfaces. We have developed techniques for... -
Cementation of Oilfield Sandstones: Micro-Geochemical Tracers, Reveal...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Reservoir quality in hydrocarbon reservoir sandstones can be greatly influenced by mineral cementation or dissolution. This can change porosity... -
Fully Determined Fluid Velocity Fields for Complex 2D Media with...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. This project will use the techniques of stereolithography and PIV directly to measure the fluid velocity field in complex, 2D, geologically... -
Multi-Scale Fluid-Flow Path Analysis: Calibration and Modelling Using...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. This project will integrate micro- and meso-scale structural and geochemical data from the Irish midlands in order to understand the fluid flow... -
Quantifying the Effects of Biofilm Growth on Hydraulic Properties and on...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The influence of biofilm growth on the hydraulic properties of sediments and rocks will be investigated experimentally over scales from... -
Scaling of Fluid Behaviour Associated with Flow Through Complex Geological Structures
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. This project is designed to integrate geological structural characterisation of fault zones with numerical modelling of flow behaviour at... -
Modelling Porosity Development and Flow in Heterogeneous Media
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The aim of the proposed project is to study evolution in the spatial characteristic of coupled flow and porosity development in heterogeneous... -
Localized Flow in Fractured Rock Masses: Mechanisms, Modelling and Characterization
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Coupled (mechanical-hydraulic) numerical models based on the distinct element method will be used to investigate the behaviour of fluid flow in... -
Controls on Matrix and Fracture Flow from Geochemical Analysis of Produced Oil
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Predicting oil production from chalk reservoirs relies on quantifying contributions from fracture and matrix porosity, which change during... -
Scaling Properties of Fluid Flow in Fractured Rocks
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. This proposal is to test the hypothesis that secondary (crack) porosity can be treated as a scaling problem in both fracture and fluid... -
Determination of Hydraulic Properties of distributed Fractures Using Seismic...
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. We propose to develop innovative seismic techniques for establishing links between hydraulic or fluid flow properties (porosity, permeability,... -
New micro-geochemical traces of fluid and solute transport in sedimentary basins
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Sandstones in hydrocarbon basins are usually cemented by quartz: this frequently infills porosity by 50%, and so dramatically reduces reservoir... -
Analysis of Reaction and Flow in Stochastically Heterogeneous Porous Media
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. Stability of a reactive front in a heterogeneous porous medium characterised by a statistical description of a permeability and/or reactivity... -
Understanding the Micro-to-Macro Behaviour of Rock-Fluid Systems - M2M
The M2M Thematic Programme funded 17 scientific investigation projects leading to more unified physical understanding of fluid flow distributions in heterogeneous rock. The...