Multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media from a stochastic differential geometry viewpoint

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-102

  Christakos, George ^a,b   Hristopulos, Dionissios T ^a,b   Li, Xinyang ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; SATURATION; VELOCITY;

FLOW VELOCITY; TENSOR;

EID: 0031961967     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR02715     Document Type: Article

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