Three-Phase Hydraulic Conductances in Angular Capillaries

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 657-671

  Al Futaisi, Ahmed ^a,b   Patzek, Tad W ^a,c  

^a Department of Civil Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAPILLARITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYSTERESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PHASE COMPOSITION; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY;

ANGULAR CAPILLARIES; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS;

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING;

EID: 1642435358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/75193-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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