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Simulation of the dynamic (frequency-dependent) permeability and electrical conductivity in porous materials based on the concept of an ensemble of pores

O. Yu. Dinariev^a, D. N. Mikhailov<sup>b

a</sup> Shchmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 123995, Russia
^b Schlumberger Moscow Research Center, Moscow, 101000, Russia

Abstract: The class of models of porous media based on the concept of an ensemble of pores with a certain distribution of the main geometrical parameters (e.g., pore size) is studied. The case of the saturation of the pore space with a single-phase multicomponent fluid mixture is studied with and without taking into account the transfer of electric charges. Transfer laws are derived from the condition of decreasing free energy. The hydrodynamic connectivity of pores (and electrical conductivity) is described by two kernels: one kernel describes the connectivity of pores in space, and the other describes the connectivity of pores in the elementary macrovolume. The frequency dependences of the dynamic permeability determined in laboratory experiments and the electrical conductivity of the porous medium were determined using the concept of an ensemble of pores. The relationship between the models considered and relaxation filtration models is established.

Keywords: porous medium, ensemble of pores, multi-component mixture, dynamic permeability frequency-dependent electrical conductivity of porous medium.

UDC: 532.546

Received: 05.06.2009
Accepted: 27.01.2010

 English version: Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics, 2011, 52:1, 82–95

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