Horizontal ethanol floods in clean, uniform, and layered sand packs under confined conditions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3291-3302

  Grubb, Dennis G ^a   Sitar, Nicholas ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

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EID: 0032740851     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900223     Document Type: Article

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