NDLI: Tracer transport in a fractured chalk: X-ray CT characterization and digital-image-based (DIB) simulation

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Author	Zhu, W. C. Liu, J. Elsworth, D. Polak, A. Grader, A. Sheng, J. C. Liu, J. X.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	A digital-image-based simulation methodology is applied to evaluate the influence of heterogeneous porosity on the evolution of tracer concentrations in imaged tracer tests. Maps of computed tomography (CT)-number are calibrated relative to average porosity, and then thresholded to define porosity maps. These data are then used to automate the distribution of parameters within a finite element representation of the geometry. The technique is applied to characterize the variability of the porosity, the hydraulic conductivity, and the diffusivity for an artificially fractured chalk core (30 × 5 cm). X-ray CT was used both to characterize the initial condition of the core, and then to concurrently monitor the transport of an NaI tracer within the fracture and into the surrounding matrix. The X-ray CT imaging is used to characterize the heterogeneous rock porosity, based on which the hydraulic conductivity, and diffusivity of the chalk were defined and were directly imported into our newly developed three-dimensional FEMLAB-based multiple physics simulator. Numerical simulations have confirmed the observed tracer transport behaviors: (1) The different tracer-penetration distances imaged in the matrix above and below the horizontal fracture are indicative of a greater tracer mass penetrating into the lower matrix; and (2) Transport in the matrix below the fracture was enhanced. The computer simulated tracer concentration distributions compare favorably with those monitored by X-ray CT.
Starting Page	25
Ending Page	42
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01693913
Journal	Transport in Porous Media
Volume Number	70
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731634
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2007-01-25
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Tracer diffusion Rock heterogeneity Porosity DIB simulation Imaging Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics Hydrogeology Civil Engineering Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Geotechnical Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Catalysis

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