Capillary-dominated two-phase flow modeling in porous media using Starfish

Abstract

Starfish is the first open-source software, specifically developed for simulation of capillary-dominated drainage/imbibition processes in the pore networks extracted from petroleum reservoir rock samples. Written in C++ using parallel computing methods, Starfish is fast and its bug fixes, modifications, and future developments will be simple. With comparing the predictions of Starfish to experimental results, it was found out that the Starfish predictions are in a good match with the experimentally obtained drainage/imbibition data.