Two-scale modeling in porous media: Relative permeability predictions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Markicevic, B ^a   Djilali, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drag; Flow simulation; Flow through porous media; Numerical analysis; Permeability; Porosity; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROSITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLOW SIMULATION; FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIA; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY;

POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33645473284     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2174877     Document Type: Article

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