Foam mobility in heterogeneous porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-35

  Kovscek, A R ^a   Bertin, H J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Environmental remediation; Foam flow; Improved oil recovery; Mechanistic modeling; Mobility control; Scaling

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); POROSITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FOAM MOBILITY;

POROUS MATERIALS;

FOAM; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION; POROUS MEDIUM; RECOVERY TECHNIQUE; REMEDIATION;

EID: 0037411023     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022312225868     Document Type: Article

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