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Sierpinski gasket

Term · Oil and gas · MLC-T-OAG-004446

A fractal object used in reservoir modeling to represent multi-scale porous media and complex fracture systems. It is formed by starting with a triangle and recursively removing the central triangular region from it and from all subsequent smaller triangles. The resulting structure has a characteristic fractal dimension of approximately 1.58 and is used to study how properties like permeability and fluid flow are affected by the hierarchical nature and connectivity of pore networks.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-OAG-004446
FieldOil and gas
SubjectReservoir Characterization
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-OAG-004446",
  "term": "Sierpinski gasket",
  "field": "Oil and gas",
  "definition": "A fractal object used in reservoir modeling to represent multi-scale porous media and complex fracture systems. It is formed by starting with a triangle and recursively removing the central triangular region from it and from all subsequent smaller triangles. The resulting structure has a characteristic fractal dimension of approximately 1.58 and is used to study how properties like permeability and fluid flow are affected by the hierarchical nature and connectivity of pore networks.",
  "subject": "Reservoir Characterization",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oil-and-gas/sierpinski-gasket/"
}

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