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Interpore Focus Group on Pore Scale Modeling and Visualization is pleased to announce  
Short Course and Workshop on Image Analysis for Porous Media

July 12-14, 2011 (Shourt Course)
July 14-15, 2011 (Workshop)
Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA

Workshop on the latest advances in image analysis, characterization and related modeling  in porous media


July 14 -  15, 2011 (See Program) (See Google Calendar)

Starts: July 14 at lunch time
Ends:  July 15, 2011 at 4:30pm
(Note there is an optional trip on Saturday)

The workshop will consist of invited talks on the latest advances in the field, and will allow for plenty of discussion.


Location: Student Activity Center, Legislative Assembly Room
               The University of Texas at Austin
                2200 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712


Registration deadline:
July 1, 2011 or on location (space permitting).
Workshop registration fee is $100 ($50 for students).

Program:


Thursday, July 14, 2011

noon - 1pm
Lunch
1 - 1:10
Welcome Remarks
1:15 - 1:55
Richard Ketcham, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
“The finite resolution of CT data and its effects on quantification and modeling”

2:00 - 2:40
Branko Bijeljić, Imperial College, London, UK
"In situ micro-CT scanning of multiple phases at high temperature and pressure"
2:45 - 3:15
Coffee Break
3:15 - 3:55
Adrian P. Sheppard, Australian National University, Australia
"Dynamic tomography for capturing the dynamics of transport in porous media"

4 - 4:40
Zuleima Karpyn, Pennsylvania State University, USA
"Pore-scale flow dynamics in fractured permeable media"

6:00 - 7:30
Poster session, NEW TIME AND LOCATION
Texas Union Building, Lone Star Room
7:30 - 9:30
Dinner, Texas Union Building, Quadrangle Room


Friday, July 15, 2011

8 - 8:40am
Elisabeth Rosenberg, Institut Français du Pétrole, France
“Numerical and experimental study of multiphase flow in porous media at the pore scale”

8:45 - 9:25
Pål-Eric Øren, Numerical Rocks, Norway
"Image-based upscaling of multiphase flow for carbonate rocks"

9:30 - 10
Coffee break
10 - 10:40
W. Brent Lindquist, Stony Brook University, USA
"Dependence of Up-Scaled Reaction Rate on Flow Rate in Porous Media"

10:45 -11:25
Dorthe Wildenschild, Oregon State University, USA
"Interfacial Configurations and Capillary Pressure Measurements from Microtomographic Images"

11:30 - 12:10
Karsten E. Thompson, Lousiana State University, USA
"Pore-scale modeling using FEM: challenges and opportunities”
12:15 - 1:15pm
Lunch (attendees on their own)
1:15 - 1:55
Joanne Fredrich, BP Upstream Company, USA
"Applications of Image-based Modeling & Simulation in E&P"

2:00 - 2:40
David DiCarlo, University of Texas at Austin, USA
"Benchmarking dynamic pore-scale models against REV-level experiments"

2:45 - 3:15
Coffee Break
3:15 - 3:55
Marios Ioannidis, University of Waterloo, Canada
"Heterogeneity and structure across multiple scales in image analysis for porous media"

4:00 - 4:40
Maša Prodanović, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
"Representative 3D Modeling of Tight Gas Sandstones: Interplay of Fractures, Porous Matrix, and Microporosity"

Poster Session

      July 14, 2011, 6:00-7:30pm, refreshments provided.
Texas Union Building, Lone Star Room.

     All participants invited to present in the poster session but notify us with title/authors by July 1.
Poster board size: 48 by 32 inches (~ 120 by 80cm).


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Figure: Network model of connectivity of pore space in a rock with primary porosity (large balls) and secondary porosity (small balls).

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