Continuum reconstruction of the pore scale microstructure for Fontainebleau sandstone

A stochastic geometrical modeling technique is used to reconstruct a laboratory scale Fontainebleau sandstone with a sidelength of 15 cm The model reconstruction is based on crystallite properties and diagenetic parameters determined from two-dimensional images The three-dimensional pore scale microstructure of the sandstone is represented by a list of quartz crystallites defined geometrically and placed in the continuum. This allows generation of synthetic mu-CT images of the rock model at arbitrary resolutions Quantitative microstructure comparison based on Minkowski functionals, two-point correlation function and local porosity theory indicates that this modeling technique used currently realistic and accurate models of sandstones than many existing techniques used currently. Synthetic mu-CT images at different resolutions from a laboratory scale model of Fontainebleau sandstone are made available to the scientific community for resolution dependent petrophysical analysis (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved