Modeling transient foam flow in porous media using a bubble population correlation

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1999-September, Issue , 1998, Pages 319-327

  Bertin, H J ^a   Quintard, M Y ^a   Castanier, L M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SIMULATORS; TEXTURES; VISCOSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOW OF SOLIDS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

COMMERCIAL SIMULATORS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OIL RECOVERY OPERATIONS; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; POPULATION BALANCE MODELING; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; TRANSIENT EXPERIMENTS;

FOAM CONTROL; FOAMS;

BUBBLE POPULATION CORRELATION; POROUS MEDIA; TRANSIENT FOAM FLOW;

EID: 0031631774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/49020-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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