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Software for
digital rock physics.

End-to-end physics-based modeling & simulation software, from raw tomographic image to field-scale recovery and reservoir prediction.

platforms

Image analysis today. Process simulation tomorrow.

Digital Rock Labs builds two physics-based modeling & simulation platforms that together cover the workflow from raw tomographic image to field-scale performance prediction. Both platforms are designed around real physics. Together they bridge nanometer pores to hundred-meter systems, enabling predictions of recovery, breakthrough, and reservoir performance.

Primary platform

DRL Studio

An end-to-end digital rock physics platform: DRL Studio imports tomographic image datasets from any modality (micro-CT/-XRM, SEM (mosaic) map, FIB-SEM and S/TEM nanotomography) and converts them into segmented 3D digital rock models ready for pore-scale fluid flow, transport, and physical-property simulation. The engine behind every DRL imaging service and research study.

About DRL Studio
In early development

RockTwin™

A multi-scale heap-leach and reservoir simulator. Built on top of DRL Studio, it extends pore-scale capability to field-relevant length and time scales through a hierarchical chain of models that span nano- and micro-scale rock material, single rock particles, and the engineered or natural reservoir system.

About RockTwin™
how they connect

Imaging → Modeling → Simulation → Process prediction.

DRL Studio handles steps 1-3 today. RockTwin will extend the pipeline to operations-scale prediction.

Step 01

Acquire

Multi-scale imaging (micro-CT/-XRM, SEM (mosaic) map, FIB-SEM and S/TEM nanotomography) image datasets captured through DRL's services workflow.

Step 02

Model

DRL Studio processes, segments, and quantifies the imaging data, building 3D digital rock models for simulation.

Step 03

Simulate

DRL Studio runs pore-scale single-/multi-phase fluid flow, transport, and physical-property simulations on the digital rock.

Step 04

Predict

RockTwin (in early development) will extend the workflow to process-scale recovery, stability, and reagent prediction.

Universities, national labs, and research institutions:
We welcome partnership on current and future research projects in critical mineral and oil & gas recovery, subsurface transport, and digital rock physics.

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