Bundle-of-tubes model for calculating dynamic effects in the capillary-pressure-saturation relationship

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 58, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 5-22

  Dahle, Helge K ^a   Celia, Michael A ^b   Hassanizadeh, S Majid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bundle of tubes; Dynamic capillary pressure; Pore scale network models; Two phase flow in porous media; Volume averaging

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); WETTING;

DYNAMIC COEFFICIENT; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; MODEL DYNAMICS; NON-WETTING FLUIDS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FLOW MODELING; POROSITY; SATURATION; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; POROSITY; SATURATED MEDIUM; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 13844308977     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-004-5466-4     Document Type: Article

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