RT Journal Article ID 276b2e906e7130cb A1 Ghoodjani, Eshragh A1 Bolouri, Seyed Hamed T1 A NOVEL TWO-PARAMETER RELATIVE PERMEABILITY MODEL JF Journal of Porous Media JO JPM YR 2012 FD 2012-09-06 VO 15 IS 11 SP 1061 OP 1066 K1 relative permeability model K1 LU model (correlation) K1 multiphase flow AB The relative permeability curves are key factors for assessment of reservoir performance by numerical simulators. The widely used one-parameter models are not sufficiently flexible for fitting laboratory measured relative permeability data. These models only show a concave upward trend and cannot represent the S-shape behavior of relative permeability. The other three-parameter models are too complex to use in practical reservoir engineering calculations. In this paper, a novel two-parameter model is proposed that maintains the simplicity of previous models while having great flexibility over a full range of saturation. The two parameters L and U control the shape of the lower and upper part of the curve, respectively; hence it is called the LU model. For testing its strength, relative permeabilities from literature are fitted with LU. The comparison results show that LU models are more accurate than previous one- and two-parameter models and that their performance is almost as good as three-parameter LET models. PB Begell House LK https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/49dcde6d4c0809db,02bb73e76bde4886,276b2e906e7130cb.html