Are there significant differences between core-flooding parameters and its respective up-scaled model (field-scale petroleum reservoir) resulting from model, scale and/or measurement effects?
A physical scale model is completely similar to its real-world prototype and involves no scale effects if it satisfies mechanical similarity implying the
(a) geometric similarity (whether the length, area and volume of a core sample used in core-flooding apparatus appropriately scale with the real-world field-scale petroleum reservoir?);
(b) kinematic similarity (Do we really have a similarity of motion between core-sample and the petroleum reservoir in terms of constant ratios of time, pressure, saturation and flow-rate?);
and
(c) dynamic similarity (Whether the force ratios between the core-sample and the real-world petroleum reservoir are identical?).
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