Modeling foamy oil flow in porous media II: Nonlinear relaxation time model of nucleation

International Journal of Multiphase Flow

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1489-1502

  Joseph, D D ^a   Kamp, A M ^b   Ko, T ^a   Bai, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Foam flow; Foamy oil; Porous media flow

Indexed keywords

ISOTHERMS; NUCLEATION; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PHASE EQUILIBRIA; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; SOLUBILITY;

FOAMY OILS;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EQUATION OF STATE; FLOW MODELING; FOAM; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; OIL; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0141502500     PISSN: 03019322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9322(03)00110-1     Document Type: Article

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