Use of pore-network models to simulate laboratory corefloods in a heterogeneous carbonate sample

SPE Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 179-185

  Xu, Baomin ^a   Kamath, Jairam ^a   Yortsos, Y C ^a   Lee, S H ^a  

^a NONE

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EID: 0000273989     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/57664-pa     Document Type: Article

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