Macroscopic capillarity without a constitutive capillary pressure function

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 371, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-225

  Hilfer, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immiscible displacement; Multiphase flow; Porous media

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYSTERESIS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); POROUS MATERIALS; VOLUME FRACTION; WETTING;

HYDROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; QUASISTATIC EQUILIBRIUM; RESIDUAL DECOUPLING APPROXIMATION;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EID: 33748700192     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.04.051     Document Type: Article

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