Immiscible front evolution in randomly heterogeneous porous media

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3331-3341

  Tartakovsky, Alexandre M ^a   Neuman, Shlomo P ^b   Lenhard, Robert J ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISCOSITY;

RANDOM INTERFACES;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DISPLACEMENT; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0345330825     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1612944     Document Type: Article

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