Heterogeneity of structure and mineralogy affects reservoir performance at multiple scales. We provide fundamental insights into the physics of flow and transport in multiscale heterogeneous environments and practical approaches to provide predictive models. Our approach considers flow and transport from the nanometre length scale to field scale operations in integrated workflows to provide high-fidelity models for the management of subsurface resources. A key to the approach is the combination of multiscale experiments and numerical simulation for the development of integrated subsurface modelling and characterisation.
Applications include geothermal energy, CO2 and hydrogen Geostorage, natural gas recovery, unconventional reservoirs, colloid and contaminant transport, digital rock physics, and waste storage related to extractive industries.
