The Modeling of Velocity Enhancement in Polymer Flooding

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-88

  Bartelds, G A ^a   Bruining, J ^a   Molenaar, J ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Excluded pore volume; Ill posed model equations; Inaccessible pore volume; Loss of hyperbolicity; Polymer accumulation; Polymer flooding; Velocity enhancement

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED RECOVERY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYMERS; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TWO PHASE FLOW;

POLYMER FLOODING; VELOCITY ENHANCEMENT FACTOR;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; RECOVERY TECHNIQUES; RESERVOIRS-OIL;

EID: 0030905843     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006563532277     Document Type: Article

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