E d i t o r i n c h i e f ZHURINOV MuratZhurinovich, doctor of chemistry, professor, academician of NAS RK, president of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, general director of JSC "Institute of fuel, catalysis and electrochemistry named after D.V. Sokolsky» (Almaty, Kazakhstan) H = 4 E d i t o r i a l b o a r d: ABSAMETOV Malis Kudysovich, (deputy editor-in-chief), doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, professor, academician of NAS RK, director of the Akhmedsafin Institute of hydrogeology and hydrophysics (Almaty, Kazakhstan) H = 2 ZHOLTAEV Geroy Zholtaevich, (deputy editor-in-chief), doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, professor, director of the institute of geological sciences named after K.I. Satpayev (Almaty, Kazakhstan) Н=2 SNOW Daniel, Ph.D, associate professor, director of the labotatory of water sciences, Nebraska University (Nebraska, USA) H = 32 Zeltman Reymar, Ph.D, head of research department in petrology and mineral deposits in the Earth sciences section of the museum of natural history (London, England) H = 37 PANFILOV Mikhail Borisovich, doctor of technical sciences, professor at the Nancy University (Nancy, France) Н=15 SHEN Ping, Ph.D, deputy director of the Committee for Mining geology of the China geological Society, Fellow of the American association of economic geologists (Beijing, China) H = 25 FISCHER Axel, Ph.D, associate professor, Dresden University of technology (Dresden, Germany) H = 6 KONTOROVICH Aleksey Emilievich, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, professor, academician of RAS, Trofimuk Institute of petroleum geology and geophysics SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia) H = 19 ABSADYKOV Bakhyt Narikbaevich, doctor of technical sciences, professor, corresponding member of NAS RK, Bekturov Institute of chemical sciences (Almaty, Kazakhstan) H = 5 AGABEKOV Vladimir Enokovich, doctor of chemistry, academician of NAS of Belarus, honorary director of the Institute of chemistry of new materials (Minsk, Belarus) H = 13 KATALIN Stephan, Ph.D, associate professor, Technical university (Dresden, Berlin) H = 20 SEITMURATOVA Eleonora Yusupovna, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, professor, corresponding member of NAS RK, head of the laboratory of the Institute of geological sciences named after K.I. Satpayev (Almaty, Kazakhstan) Н=11 SAGINTAYEV Zhanay, Ph.D, associate professor, Nazarbayev University (Nursultan, Kazakhstan) H = 11 FRATTINI Paolo, Ph.D, associate professor, university of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy) H = 28 News of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Series of geology and technology sciences.

Two-phase flow through a fibrous porous medium is numerically simulated. The goal of the study is to investigate the effect of numerical slip length on variation of pressure drop and saturation. The simulation is based on the numerical solution of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for two-phase flow around a circular cylinder with radii in the ranges from 0.1 to 0.4. Variations of pressure drop and saturation in time are numerically calculated on simple and snap meshes for different values of surface tension (σ), viscosity ratio (M = μnw/μw), and mesh sizes. Also, numerical results using simple and snap meshes are compared. Numerical calculations are performed using the interFoam solver in OpenFOAM® finite volume library. The presented results show that solutions of saturation and pressure drop in time vary with mesh refinement, so the numerical slip length significantly affects the flow. For a coarser mesh the influence of numerical slip length is less than for a finer mesh, also as bigger the value of the viscosity ratio or surface tension as lower the influence of numerical slip length. The results show that the contact line motion significantly depends not only on the microstructure of the porous media, but also on the fluid properties (viscosity ratio, surface tension and etc.).

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Pore-scale modeling is becoming widely applied in the oil industry. The objective of porescale imaging and modeling is to predict the properties of multiphase flow in porous media. Pore-network model construction of geologically realistic samples and determination of rock and two-phase fluid flow properties are described and discussed in this paper. Pore-network models were constructed using published micro-computed tomography images of different rock samples. Effective porosity, average absolute permeability, capillary pressure, tortuosity (in 3 directions), and relative permeability were calculated for 2 types of displacement (drainage and imbibition). Avizo® Software and two-phase code were used for volume rendering of rock samples and calculations of rock and two-phase fluid flow properties, since it is a valuable and reliable tool for prediction of petrophysical properties and has advances in visualization of the pore space. Created 3D models of core samples based on micro-computed tomography scan data will allow oil and oilfield service companies to create a digital core database on a computer instead of storing physical cores in warehouses, which in turn greatly facilitates access to cores for further work with them.

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