A new displacement experiment technique to measure unsteady state two-phase relative permeability-saturation-capillary head relationships

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3199-3203

  Clayton, Wilson S ^a,b,c  

^a NSF Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation s Urban Water Infrastructure   (United States)

^b IT Corporation   (United States)

^c IT Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION;

EID: 0032823175     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900203     Document Type: Article

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