Effects of snap-off in imbibition in porous media with different spatial correlations

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 279-300

  Mahmud, Walid Mohamed ^a   Nguyen, Viet Hoai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

fBm; Heterogeneity; Network models; Snap off; Spatial correlation; Two phase flow; Two phase relative permeability

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE SIZE; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TWO PHASE FLOW;

HETEROGENEITY; NETWORK MODELS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SNAP-OFF; SPATIAL CORRELATION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

ASPECT RATIO; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TWO PHASE FLOW;

CORRELATION; IMBIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; STOCHASTICITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33744932464     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-4042-x     Document Type: Article

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