Calculation of the effective permeabilities of field-scale porous media

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 55, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 4495-4513

  Mukhopadhyay, Sumit ^a,b   Sahimi, Muhammad ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

RENORMALIZATION GROUP METHOD;

POROUS MATERIALS;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0034307039     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(00)00098-1     Document Type: Article

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