Analytic solutions for 1D countercurrent imbibition in water-wet media

SPE Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 401-408

  Kashchiev, Dimo ^a   Firoozabadi, Abbas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Bulgaria)

^b RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAPILLARY FLOW; DIFFUSION; ONE DIMENSIONAL; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CYLINDRICAL IMBIBITION; LINEAR IMBIBITION; SPHERICAL IMBIBITION; WATER SATURATION; WATER-WET MEDIA;

FLOW OF WATER;

EID: 0346640463     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/87333-pa     Document Type: Article

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