Genetic algorithm for estimating multiphase flow functions from unsteady-state displacement experiments

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 251-258

  Akin, Serhat ^a   Demiral, Birol ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0031692105     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(97)00129-5     Document Type: Article

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