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<p>To solve the problem in conventional technologies of analysis and integration in micro scale of reservoir core, virtual reality and visualization technology can be used in the research of reservoir core microstructure. Integrated with practical research and application works, the modeling method of reservoir core and the database store method of microstructure model are analyzed and discussed. A skeleton extraction algorithm based on maximum circumsphere method is proposed to achieve the skeleton model construction of reservoir core. And the visualization of reservoir core microstructure which includes the visualizations of voxel model, surface model, solid model and skeleton model of reservoir core are realized based on OpenGL graphics library. Taking a carbonate as a case study, we develop a set of software named “visualization system of reservoir core microstructure”, which is an effective evidence in the application to scientific research of reservoir core microstructure.</p>
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To solve the problem in conventional technologies of analysis and integration in micro scale of reservoir core, virtual reality and visualization technology can be used in the research of reservoir core microstructure. Integrated with practical research and application works, the modeling method of reservoir core and the database store method of microstructure model are analyzed and discussed. A skeleton extraction algorithm based on maximum circumsphere method is proposed to achieve the skeleton model construction of reservoir core. And the visualization of reservoir core microstructure which includes the visualizations of voxel model, surface model, solid model and skeleton model of reservoir core are realized based on OpenGL graphics library. Taking a carbonate as a case study, we develop a set of software named “visualization system of reservoir core microstructure”, which is an effective evidence in the application to scientific research of reservoir core microstructure.

Visualization Technology of the Microstructure of Reservoir Core

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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To solve the problem in conventional technologies of analysis and integration in micro scale of reservoir core, virtual reality and visualization technology...

Visualization Technology of the Microstructure of Reservoir Core

Published Online: Sep 01, 2016

Page range: 1479 - 1496

Received: May 03, 2016

Accepted: Jul 22, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-926

© 2016 Niu Wenjie et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.