Pore network analysis of resistivity index for water-wet porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-128

  Tsakiroglou, Christos D ^a   Fleury, Marc ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Drainage; Electrical conductivity; Fractal roughness; Percolation; Pore network; Resistivity index; Saturation exponent

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PORE SIZE; POROSITY; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

PERCOLATION THEORY; PORE NETWORK ANALYSIS; RESISTIVITY INDEX;

CAPILLARY TUBES;

DRAINAGE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; RESISTIVITY;

EID: 0032798753     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006586409963     Document Type: Article

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