ABSTRACT
Information pertaining to granular systems, including inhomogeneities, is encoded at the granular scale and propagated up to the field scale. Their effect on the global performance of geosystems at the field scale, such as oil reservoirs, can be profound as it has been shown that these features can serve as flow barriers, reducing the effective permeability of the reservoir by orders of magnitude (Holcomb and Olsson 2003; Sternlof et al., 2006).
