Miscible quarter five-spot displacements in a Hele-Shaw cell and the role of flow-induced dispersion

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1705-1716

  Petitjeans, Philippe ^a,b   Chen, Ching Yao ^b   Meiburg, Eckart ^a,b   Maxworthy, Tony ^a,b  

^a ESPCI   (France)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSORS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

ATWOOD NUMBER; HELE-SHAW CELLS; MISCIBLE QUARTER FIVE SPOT DISPLACEMENTS; PECLET NUMBER; TAYLOR DISPERSION;

VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 0032607143     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870037     Document Type: Article

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