This course will provide an overview of pore-scale imaging, analysis and modelling with an emphasis on how the fundamentals inform practical applications. The course will allow scientists and engineers to make the best use of the latest developments in imaging and modelling, and to apply the results intelligently to predict and interpret field-scale recovery, storage and transport processes. 

The course will start with a review of the basic physical laws governing flow and transport at the small scale. Then the latest developments in imaging and modelling technology will be reviewed. The emphasis will then be on multiphase flow properties – capillary pressure and relative permeability. Attendees will understand how to use these quantities for the design and interpretation of field-scale processes.

The course will not only introduce so-called digital rock physics, but will educate participants in the deeper and richer appreciation of multiphase flow properties and their impact at the macroscale enabled by new imaging and modelling technology.

The material in the lectures below will be supplemented by pre-recorded teaching material and with reading from chapters of my book “Multiphase Flow in Permeable Media: a Pore-Scale Perspective”. There are 12 hours of formal lectures and examples during the class over four days with 12 hours of pre-recorded material, making the course a total of 24 hours.