Case Study
Analysis and Simulation of Rock Properties
58 // C OMSOL NE WS 2 0 1 1 IMAGING VSG, BURLINGTON, MA U nearthing the hidden structure of rocks — that’s what Shuang Zhang and his colleagues achieved by using the combination of VSG’s Avizo 3D Analysis software and COMSOL’s Multiphysics modeling and simulation software 1 . Since American oil and gas reserves are becoming increasingly more difficult to access, the industry has been turning to the technique of injecting fluid under