An approximate analytical solution for counter-current spontaneous imbibition

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 373-390

  Ruth, Douglas W ^a   Li, Yu ^a   Mason, Geoffrey ^b   Morrow, Norman R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Counter current; Enalytical solution; Integral solution; Numerical solution; Porous media; Series solution; Similarity solution; Spontaneous imbibition

Indexed keywords

INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; WATER;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; INTEGRAL SOLUTION; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; WETTING PHASE;

WETTING;

INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; WATER; WETTING;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; IMBIBITION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 33846986493     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-006-0019-7     Document Type: Article

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