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5.4 Results
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in Figure 5.1. Other properties of these networks are given in Table (5.1).
Table 5.1: Statistical properties of the three generic network models.
Property
Value
Number of pore bodies 7, 725
Number of throats 20, 839
Number of inlet pore throats 773
Number of outlet pore throats 763
Average coordination number 6.0
Porosity (networks: R 1 to R 3 ) 0.24 to 0.11
Conductivity (m/d),(networks:R 1 to R 3 ) 6.5 to 0.14
Table (5.1) indicates 7,725 pore bodies in each network, while the potential
number of pore bodies is 8,000. The difference is due to the fact that some
pore bodies lost all their connections through the elimination process [Raoof
and Hassanizadeh, 2009], explained in section 5.2. Figure (5.11) shows the
capillary pressure-saturation curves for these three networks.
Figure 5.11: Capillary pressure-saturation curves for three generic pore networks.
The pore throat size distributions (R 1, R 2, and R 3) are shown in Figure
(5.1).
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