Gas Flow in Porous Media with Klinkenberg Effects

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 117-137

  Wu, Yu Shu ^a   Pruess, Karsten ^a   Persoff, Peter ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air permeability tests; Air venting; Gas flow; Klinkenberg constant; Klinkenberg effect; Pneumatic analysis; Unsaturated zone flow

Indexed keywords

AIR PERMEABILITY; COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

KLINKENBERG EFFECT; PNEUMATIC ANALYSIS; UNSATURATED ZONE FLOW;

STEADY FLOW;

GAS FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0345601543     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006535211684     Document Type: Article

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