Computing and Comparing Effective Properties for Flow and Transport in Computer-Generated Porous Media

Table 1

Recent work using real or computer-generated porous media samples: comparison of sample types, porosities, and computed properties.

Study	Real sample	Computer-generated sample	Porosity range	Effective properties computed
[16]		3D fibrous material (membrane)	0.45–0.9	permeability, hydraulic tortuosity
[15]	3D samples: Fontainbleau (F), Berea (B), Carbonate (C)	Sphere pack	F: 0.147, B: 0.184, C: 0.247, Spheres: 0.343	Permeability, electrical resistivity, among others
[14]		2D staggered cylinders, 3D body-centered-cubic spheres	0.25–0.98	Permeability, hydraulic tortuosity
[53]	3D vuggy limestone		0.16–0.81	Permeability
[21]	3D samples of volcanic tuff, glass bead column, sandpack, sandstones, carbonates	3D samples generated by level-set percolation	Real: 0.43, 0.6; Generated: 0.35, 0.6	Permeability, hydraulic tortuosity
[12]	3D carbonate, sandpacks, sandstone		0.17–0.38	Permeability
[22]		3D samples generated by spherical/nonspherical grain models	0.05–0.55	Permeability, hydraulic tortuosity
[13]		2D randomly distributed freely overlapping squares	0.367–0.99	Hydraulic tortuosity