The critical gas saturation in a porous medium in the presence of gravity

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 388-395

  Tsimpanogiannis, Ioannis N ^a   Yortsos, Yannis C ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Critical gas saturation; Gradient percolation; Nucleation; Phase change; Pore networks; Porous media

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRAVITATION; MASS TRANSFER; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); VISCOSITY;

CRITICAL GAS SATURATION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; BUOYANCY; CRITICAL GAS SATURATION; DECOMPRESSION; FORCE; GAS; GAS FLOW; GAS PERMEABILITY; GRAVITY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0345863422     PISSN: 00219797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2003.09.036     Document Type: Article

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