Estimation of true dispersivity in field-scale permeable media

SPE Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 272-279

  Mahadevan, Jagannathan ^a   Lake, Larry W ^a   Johns, Russell T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

ECHO DISPERSIVITY; GROUNDWATER TRACER TESTS; SINGLE WELL TRACER TESTS;

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING;

EID: 0141988604     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/86303-PA     Document Type: Article

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