Forced imbibition in natural porous media: Comparison between experiments and continuum models

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Riaz, Amir ^a   Tang, Guo Qing ^a   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^a   Kovscek, Anthony R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTINUUM EQUATIONS; CORRUGATION MODELS; PERMEABILITY;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 33947326726     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.036305     Document Type: Article

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