A two-dimensional network simulator for two-phase flow in porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-186

  Aker, Eyvind ^a,b   Måløy, Knut Jørgen ^a   Hansen, Alex ^b,c   Batrouni, G George ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Capillary and viscous forces; Drainage displacement; Front width; Immiscible; Network modeling; Pressure simulations; Scaling exponents; Time dependences; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; DRAINAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WETTING;

DRAINAGE DISPLACEMENT; NETWORK MODELING;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

FLOW MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0032148034     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006510106194     Document Type: Article

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