Digital Petroleum Geomechanics

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue focusing on both fundamental and application of Digital Rock Mechanics (DRM) in petroleum geo-mechanics. We are targeting original high-quality works and welcome experimental, numerical, and case studies in petroleum geomechanics, preferably with a high level of DRM involvement.

Most petroleum applications involve significant amounts of complexities due to scale-dependency of the problems, as well as tightly coupled physical phenomena. High stresses, the influence of fluid movement, temperature changes and disturbances due to chemical reactions are amongst the roots of these complexities. Interaction or superposition of these effects will initiate in micro (even nano) scale and the coalescing of these changes will contribute to overall rock behavior (deformation and failure). As a result, a better understanding of the small-scale rock behavior and in-depth visualization and modeling of such phenomenon have come to the attention of scientific society in the recent years. Computed Tomography (CT) in general and micro CT (uCT), in particular, have been instigated to unlock these complications more than ever. Pore scale rock deformation before, during and after multiphysic behaviour is observed experimentally using 3D images and/or modeled numerically where its scientific importance has been acknowledged in a considerable number of articles. However, being a relatively new field of research, there are numerous gaps in understanding (e.g., nature of the grain-grain interaction, grain contact mapping, micro scale-to-macro scale behavior, etc.).

Dr. Mohammad Sarmadivaleh
Dr. Tobias M. Müller
Guest Editors

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• digital rock mechanics
• micro CT
• grain size modelling
• vitalization
• grain-grain contact
• grain shape
• micro crack
• hydraulic fracturing
• sanding
• subsidence