Capillary-dominated two-phase flow modeling in porous media using Starfish

• Main Authors: Ali Reza Khaz’ali, Jamshid Moghadasi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2018-08-01
• Series: Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology
• Subjects: Capillary pressure; Iterative linear solver; Open-source project; Pore-scale network modeling; Preconditioner; Relative permeability
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13202-018-0529-1

Abstract Starfish is the first open-source software, specifically developed for simulation of capillary-dominated drainage/imbibition processes in the pore networks extracted from petroleum reservoir rock samples. Written in C++ using parallel computing methods, Starfish is fast and its bug fixes, modifications, and future developments will be simple. With comparing the predictions of Starfish to experimental results, it was found out that the Starfish predictions are in a good match with the experimentally obtained drainage/imbibition data.