The scaleup of two-phase flow in porous media using phase permeability tensors

SPE Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 369-381

  Pickup, Gillian E ^a   Serbie, Kenneth S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; TENSORS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS SIMULATION; PHASE PERMEABILITY TENSORS; SCALEUP TECHNIQUE;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0030361887     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/28586-pa     Document Type: Article

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