Solution and upscaling of compositional and immiscible displacements in composite media

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 287-291

  Subramanian, Sathish K ^a   Johns, Russell T ^a   Dindoruk, Birol ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Miscible displacement; Relative permeability; Scale up

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; IMMISCIBILITY; PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033178198     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.5.3.287     Document Type: Article

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