Simultaneous measurement of capillary pressure, saturation, and effective permeability of immiscible liquids in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3687-3692

  Dane, I H ^a   Hofstee, C ^b   Corey, A T ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; POROUS MATERIALS; STEADY FLOW; WETTING;

DENSE NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; DENSITY DIFFERENCE; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS; LIGHT NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; STEADY-STATE FLOW CONDITIONS;

LIQUIDS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION;

EID: 0032409107     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900026     Document Type: Article

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