Maas interpretation of SCAL experiments

Welcome to the Maas Special Core Analysis Simulation Page

This page is based on the original EPT SCAL Interpretation web page
The simulations are carried out with DuMu^x The application was made portable using Ermine

This page gives users an easy access to the Maas Special CORE analysis tool SCORES. SCORES is a user interface to a version of the DuMu^x simulator, for your SCAL flow experiments. DuMu^x in turn is a module for Dune and is part of the OPM (Open Porous Media) initiative. The important support given by Bernd Flemisch, Stuttgart University, to adapt DuMu^x to SCORES is gratefully acknowledged.

We hope, this tool will help you to enhance the interpretation of SCAL flow experiments significantly by history matching the experimental results adjusting the relative permeability and capillary pressure curves.

DuMu^x is a fully implicit simulator. The version that we make available to you has been limited to 1-D simulations of 2-phase incompressible flow for most experiments. Only the gas phase is modelled as compressible in simulations of UnSteady-State experiments with gas and in simulations of mercury-air (MICP) experiments.

The simulation results are presented in the form of a spreadsheet, tabulating data (such as oil and water production rates and cumulatives, pressure drop, average saturation) as a function of time. In the case of Unsteady-State, Steady-State, Porous Plate and Continuous Injection experiments, also saturation profiles are generated in spreadsheet format.

SCORES simulations are provided free of charge, the only thing to do is to apply for a password. However, you must remember that you can only use the results at your own risk. No warranty of any kind is given, no liabilities of any kind are accepted or can be passed on from other parties.

SCORES will remember your latest data set. If your latest data do not appear when restarting your web browser, please press "Reload".

Click here for the experiment you want to simulate: UnSteady State Experiment, Steady State Experiment, Centrifuge Experiment, Porous Plate Experiment, Continuous Injection Experiment, UnSteady State Experiment with Gas, Steady State Experiment with varying rates, or Mercury - air (MICP).

Interested in Special Core Analysis? See what the Society of Core Analysts (SCA) can mean for you. Technical details of SCORES have been discussed in various SCA papers: SCA9719, SCA2011-08 and SCA2016-013 (SCA Symposium Proceedings August 2016).

A SCAL simulator comparative study using 5 test cases is presented in SCA2016-006 (SCA Symposium Proceedings August 2016). The SCORES results for each test case, showing also an echo of the used input, are available here for Case 1, Case 2, Case 3, Case 4, Case 5.

We appreciate your feedback.

SCA papers can be downloaded from here.