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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Studies of Flow and Transport in Porous Media
Author(s) -
Chen Quan,
Kinzelbach Wolfgang,
Oswald Sascha
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of environmental quality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 171
eISSN - 1537-2537
pISSN - 0047-2425
DOI - 10.2134/jeq2002.4770
Subject(s) - porous medium , magnetic resonance imaging , flow (mathematics) , mechanics , fluid dynamics , flow visualization , visualization , nuclear magnetic resonance , multiphase flow , physics , black box , materials science , porosity , computer science , medicine , data mining , artificial intelligence , radiology , composite material
Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI) methods for visualization of fluid flow and transport in porous media are reviewed in this paper. They are illustrated with experiments showing applications of velocity imaging, NMRI measurements of multiphase flow, and NMRI measurements of density flow. The latter two are compared with numerical simulations. The examples show the capacity of NMRI to give structural information both of the medium and the fluid distributions as well as their temporal development. The resulting data can be used in a black box–white box comparison and as benchmarks for numerical models.