TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating 3D geometry of porous media from high resolution images
AU - Lindquist, W. B.
AU - Venkatarangan, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknuwledgenrents The authors wsh to thank John Dunsmw. Exxon Ke-search and Engmeenng Co, and Shag-Rong Song. Nattonal Tatwan Uw versity, for providmg the X-Ray computed mlcrotomographlc muges used m this work This work ts supported by the Geosctences program of the 11 S Department of Energy, contract DE-FG02-92EI 526 I, Sandia NatIonal Laboratories. contract AU-9640. and the Apphed Mathematical Suences subprogram of the U S. Depanment of Energy, contract DE-FGOZ-90ER25084
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - We present spatial distributions for pore path length and coordination number, pore throat size and nodal pore volume obtained for a 1.53 mm3 volume of 12.1% porosity Fontainebleau sandstone. The sandstone was imaged using Synchrotron X-Ray computed microtomography at 6 micron resolution. The spatial distributions were computed based upon three dimensional medial axis analysis of the void space in the image. We also present vesicle size and vesicle-vesicle contact surface area distributions for a 1.36 mm length of a 6.36 mm diameter core of basalt from a vesiculated lava flow imaged at 20 micron resolution.
AB - We present spatial distributions for pore path length and coordination number, pore throat size and nodal pore volume obtained for a 1.53 mm3 volume of 12.1% porosity Fontainebleau sandstone. The sandstone was imaged using Synchrotron X-Ray computed microtomography at 6 micron resolution. The spatial distributions were computed based upon three dimensional medial axis analysis of the void space in the image. We also present vesicle size and vesicle-vesicle contact surface area distributions for a 1.36 mm length of a 6.36 mm diameter core of basalt from a vesiculated lava flow imaged at 20 micron resolution.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1464-1895(99)00085-X
DO - 10.1016/S1464-1895(99)00085-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033384976
SN - 1464-1895
VL - 24
SP - 593
EP - 599
JO - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy
JF - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy
IS - 7
ER -