A stochastic analysis of steady state two-phase flow in heterogeneous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Chen, Mingjie ^a,b   Zhang, Dongxiao ^c   Keller, Arturo A ^a   Lu, Zhiming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOILS;

FLOW EQUATIONS; INTRINSIC PERMEABILITY; RANDOM FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PERMEABILITY; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; SOIL WATER; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 14944366975     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003412     Document Type: Article

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