Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of two-phase flow in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Pan, C ^a,c   Hilpert, M ^b   Miller, C T ^a,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lattice Boltzmann; Multiphase flow; Two phase

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; TWO PHASE FLOW; WATER;

LATTICE-BOLTZMANN SIMULATION; PORE SCALE;

WATER RESOURCES;

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

FLOW PATTERN; MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CHEN;

EID: 1642271800     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002120     Document Type: Article

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