GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROMODEL OF A POROUS ROCK SAMPLE

摘要

An image processing module (122) acquires an image of a slice (106) a rock sample (102) having a network of pores, a transformation module (124) transforms the image into a binary matrix and determines a set of statistical moments of the binary matrix, a layer generation module (126) generates a first representation of a first stochastic layer based on the set and emulative of the rock sample and generates a second representation of a second stochastic layer based on the set and emulative of the rock sample. An arrangement module (128) arranges the first representation and the second representation as adjacent layers of a three-dimensional model emulative of the rock sample (102), and provides the first representation and the second representation to the 3D fabricator (140) for fabrication as a physical three-dimensional fluid micromodel (160) emulative of the rock sample (102).