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 imaging fluid flow in the natural rock fractures themselves, in high fidelity physical models, and by using high-resolution numerical simulations. These advances will be used to examine the scaling behaviour of miscible/non miscible fluid flow in fractures, paying particular attention to (i) channelling, fingering, dispersion and flow stability, (ii) surface wettability, (iii) normal and shear deformation, and (iv) the nature and development of fractural fracture matching, experimental (optical, NMR and PET) imaging will be carries out concurrently with numerical modelling on a suite of tuned synthetic fractures. The results will be applied to multi-fracture systems of interest to the oil industry and UK NIREX Ltd.

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Date (Creation)
2000-03-01
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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605403
Principal investigator
  University of Aberdeen - Hurst, Professor A ( Geology and Petroleum Geology )
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  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
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  • Mathematical models
  • Fluid dynamics
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Fluid flow
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  • NERC_DDC
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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Begin date
2000
End date
2002
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GST022656, M2m. PW Glover, E Isakov, S Ogilvie University of Aberdeen.

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  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
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2011
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2010-12-08
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2026-05-04
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UK GEMINI
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2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13605403
 
 

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