Effects of heterogeneities on capillary pressure-saturation-relative permeability relationships

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 175-192

  Ataie Ashtiani, Behzad ^a   Majid Hassanizadeh, S ^b   Celia, Michael A ^c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Effective parameters; Heterogeneity; Porous media; Relative permeability; Saturation; Two phase flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAPILLARITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CAPILLARY PRESSURES;

CONTAMINATION;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; TWO PHASE FLOW; UPSCALING;

ARTICLE; FLOW RATE; HYPOTHESIS; PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SOIL; WATER FLOW; WATER PERMEABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0036260863     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7722(01)00208-X     Document Type: Article

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