Estimation of relative permeabilities in three-phase flow in porous media

Inverse Problems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-39

  Chavent, Guy ^a,b   Jaffré, Jérôme ^b   Jan Jégou, Sophie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARCY LAW; DARCY VELOCITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; THREE-PHASE FLOW;

ESTIMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; VELOCITY;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0033077273     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/15/1/007     Document Type: Article

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