Exploring dynamic effects in capillary pressure in multistep outflow experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-14

  O'Carroll, Denis M ^a   Phelan, Thomas J ^b   Abriola, Linda M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; GEOPHYSICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WATER RESOURCES;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW SIMULATORS; MULTISTEP OUTFLOW (MSO) EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION SIMULATORS;

CAPILLARY FLOW;

MULTIPHASE FLOW; OUTFLOW METER;

EID: 29944442883     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004010     Document Type: Article

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