Characterization of waterflood saturation profile histories by the 'complete' capillary number

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 213-237

  Dong, Mingzhe ^a,b   Dullien, Francis A L ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Imperial Oil Ltd Resources Limited   (Canada)

^c CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Capillary number; Imbibition; Sandpack; Saturation profile history; Waterflood

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SAND; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

CAPILLARY NUMBER;

FLOODS;

EID: 0032068337     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006565621860     Document Type: Article

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