Bobo Luo1,*, Yunbin Xiong1, Zhuoyi Li2, Zhanqing Qu3, Fenggang Liu1, Tiankui Guo3, Zugui Yang1, Yina Shi1
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 911-928, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.022761
- 02 November 2022
Abstract Due to its long lifespan and high sand-removal efficiency, gravel packing is one of the most applied sand control methods during the recovery of reservoirs with sanding problems. The blockage and retention of injected sand in a gravel pack is a complex process affected by multiple mechanisms. The majority of existing studies based on the phenomenological deep bed filtration (DBF) theory focused on the gravel pack’s overall permeability damage and failed to obtain the inner-pore particle distribution pattern. In this work, experiments and simulations were carried out to reveal the particle distribution in a gravel More >