Coupling of foam drainage and viscous fingering in porous media revealed by X-ray computed tomography

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 301-313

  Zitha, Pacelli L J ^a   Nguyen, Quoc P ^a   Currie, Peter K ^a   Buijse, Marten A ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

CT scan; Experiments; Foam drainage; Foams; Viscous fingering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VISCOUS FLOW;

DRAINAGE WAVE; FLUID FRACTION; FOAM DRAINAGE; VISCOUS FINGERING;

FOAMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; FOAMS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VISCOUS FLOW;

FINGERING; FOAM; POROUS MEDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33744915306     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-4166-z     Document Type: Article

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