The effect of wettability on three-phase relative permeability

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 347-366

  Dicarlo, David A ^a   Sahni, Akshay ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CT scanning; Multiphase flow; Relative permeability; Wettability

Indexed keywords

GASES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SURFACE TENSION; WATER;

RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; THREE PHASE FLOW; WETTABILITY;

WETTING;

MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL-WATER EMULSION; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; WETTING;

MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; WETTABILITY;

EID: 0034065310     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006653323374     Document Type: Article

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