Design of two-phase displacement experiments

Inverse Problems in Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-84

  Sylte, André ^a   Ebeltoft, Einar ^a   Grimstad, Alv Arne ^a   Kulkarni, Raghavendra ^a   Nordtvedt, Jan Erik ^a   Watson, A Ted ^a  

^a Petec S and S AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Accuracy analysis; Design of experiments; Non linearity; Relative permeability

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ANALYSIS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0036486873     PISSN: 10682767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10682760290022546     Document Type: Article

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