...Xiaodong Han; Liguo Zhong; Yigang Liu; Tao Fang; Cunliang Chen Fine migration is always considered as one of the major mechanisms that are responsible for formation damage. The unwanted reduction of reservoir permeability would result in the decline of water injection and consequent oil production...

...Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani; Sajjad Foroughi; Sevda Norouzi; Saeid Jamshidi This paper presents a pore-scale model proposed for numerical simulation of fines migration in porous media. The model simulates the behavior of spherical particles with different radii in flow by coupling lattice Boltzmann...

... are assembled in sufficient quantities, they obstruct pore throats and reduce the permeability of the formation. There is anecdotal evidence of substantial fines migration during steam injection enhanced oil recovery operations. As of yet, the mechanism of fines release with temperature is unexplained...