# Geostatistical Simulation and Reconstruction of Porous Media by a Cross-Correlation Function and Integration of Hard and Soft Data

@article{Tahmasebi2015GeostatisticalSA,
title={Geostatistical Simulation and Reconstruction of Porous Media by a Cross-Correlation Function and Integration of Hard and Soft Data},
journal={Transport in Porous Media},
year={2015},
volume={107},
pages={871-905}
}
• Published 18 February 2015
• Physics
• Transport in Porous Media
A new method is proposed for geostatistical simulation and reconstruction of porous media by integrating hard (quantitative) and soft (qualitative) data with a newly developed method of reconstruction. The reconstruction method is based on a cross-correlation function that we recently proposed and contains global multiple-point information about the porous medium under study, which is referred to cross-correlation-based simulation (CCSIM). The porous medium to be reconstructed is represented by…
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