Network simulation of steady-state two-phase flow in consolidated porous media

AIChE Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 369-382

  Constantinides, George N ^a   Payatakes, Alkiviades C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSOLIDATION; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY; TOPOLOGY; VISCOSITY; WETTING;

CAPILLARY NUMBER; FRACTIONAL FLOW; GANGLION POPULATION DYNAMICS; STEADY STATE TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTABILITY; WETTING PHASE SATURATION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POROUS MEDIA-FLOW THROUGH; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0030072024     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690420207     Document Type: Article

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