Detailed physics, predictive capabilities and macroscopic consequences for pore-network models of multiphase flow

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 25, Issue 8-12, 2002, Pages 1069-1089

  Blunt, Martin J ^a   Jackson, Matthew D ^a   Piri, Mohammad ^a   Valvatne, Per H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiphase flow in porous media; Network models; Pore scale modelling

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE; MASS TRANSFER; ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SOILS;

TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

WATER RESOURCES;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; GROUNDWATER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; PORE SPACE;

EID: 0036704531     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(02)00049-0     Document Type: Article

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