Fingering instability in water-oil displacement

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 363-380

  Brailovsky, I ^a   Babchin, A ^b   Frankel, M ^c   Sivashinsky, Grishas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fingering; Flows in porous media; Interface instability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OILS AND FATS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUBILITY; WATER;

BUCKLEY-LEVERETT THEORY; DRARRIEUS-LANDAU PROBLEMS; INTEFACE INSTABILITY; SAFFMAN-TAYLOR PROBLEMS; TWO-PHASE IMMISCIBLE FLOWS; WATER-OIL DISPLACEMENT;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OILS AND FATS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUBILITY; TWO PHASE FLOW; WATER;

FINGERING; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; INSTABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 33745451794     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-8430-z     Document Type: Article

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