A General Scaling Method for Spontaneous Imbibition

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1875-1885

  Li, Kewen ^a   Home, Roland N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCES; IMBIBITION RATES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; ROCK MECHANICS; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 1142290944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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