Mobility of foam in heterogeneous media: Flow parallel and perpendicular to stratification

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn , Issue B, 2000, Pages 729-739

  Tanzil, Dicksen ^a   Hirasaki, George J ^a   Miller, Clarence A ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); THERMAL STRATIFICATION; VISCOSITY;

HETEROGENOUS MEDIA;

FOAMS;

EID: 0034589310     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/63228-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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