NERC Thematic Programme Understanding The Micro-to-Macro Behaviour of Rock-Fluid Systems

This NERC Micro-to-Macro Programme is nearing completion and an end of programme meeting is planned for 4 and 5 November 2003 at the Geological Society in London to present the achievements of the Programme to the wider earth science community. Further information is available from Dr Richard Shaw (rps@bgs.ac.uk), BGS, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK, or from http://www.bgs.ac.uk/micromacro/home.html

The programme has focused on developing our understanding of the relationships between measured and modelled sub-surface fluid flows spanning the range of spatial and temporal scales relevant to fluid resource management. The Programme, which has funded 16 research projects spanning a wide spectrum of observation and simulation scales, can be divided into four themes:

• Understanding the natural processes which lead to scaling relationships between size and magnitude of rock and flow heterogeneity;
• Quantification of essential fluid flow properties and their spatial pattern from measurements;
• Identification of appropriate statistical models and scaling laws describing rock property heterogeneity and fluid-rock interactions in geological media;
• Understanding the relationships between rock property distributions and flow model parameter distributions.
  

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