A Steady-State Upscaling Approach for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-192

  Virnovsky, G A ^a   Friis, H A ^a   Lohne, A ^a  

^a Rogaland Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

Capillary heterogeneity; Capillary pressure; Effective relative permeabilities; Steady state; Two phase flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE DROP; SOLUBILITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; WETTABILITY;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLOW MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; SCALING; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0742323455     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026363132351     Document Type: Article

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