Resolution power of pressure data for permeability identification

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-159

  Lien, Martha Økland ^a   Mannseth, Trond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ill posed; Permeability identification; Pressure data; Resolution; Synthetic core; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; TWO PHASE FLOW;

GLOBAL PRESSURE MODEL; HETEROGENEOUS CORES; PERMEABILITY IDENTIFICATION; PRESSURE DATA; RESOLUTION POWER; SYNTHETIC CORE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; TWO PHASE FLOW;

PERMEABILITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33646925085     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-1910-3     Document Type: Article

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