Study of shale wettability for CO2 storage

For a water-saturated cap-rock, which consists of a low-permeability porous material, the wettability of the reservoir rock-connate water- CO2 system and the interfacial tension (IFT) between CO2 and connate water are the significant parameters for the evaluation of the capillary sealing. Also, the amount of capillary-trapped CO2 depends on the...

Electrokinetic fields and waves: Theory, experiments and numerical modeling

Minimum-phase Property of Memory Functions in the Wave Equation

Memory functions occur in the wave equation as time-convolution operators and generally account for the instantaneous and non-instantaneous responses of a medium. The specific memory function that is causal and stable, and the inverse of which is also causal and stable, is conventionally referred to as minimum phase. In this paper we present ...