Upscaling
For an immiscible, incompressible multi-phase fluid flow in a petroleum reservoir,
if the total flow rate plays an identical role as energy in ordinary statistical mechanics; and
if the local steady-state fluid flow plays the role of local thermodynamic equilibrium,
Can the statistical mechanics ‘by itself’ – would be able to comfortably link – the pore-scale hydrodynamic description to a continuum-scale physics – towards upscaling to ‘All Levels’ of ‘Coarse-Scale Physics’?