Large scale mixing for immiscible displacement in heterogeneous porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 287-314

  Neuweiler, I ^a   Attinger, S ^b   Kinzelbach, W ^b   King, P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Buckley Leverett flow; Heterogeneous porous media; Macrodispersion; Stochastic method; Two phase flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SOLUBILITY;

IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT;

POROUS MATERIALS;

IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; MIXING; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0037409138     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022370927468     Document Type: Article

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