Instability in displacement of viscous fluids from porous specimens

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 61, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 637-643

  Smirnov, N N ^a   Nikitin, V F ^a   Dushin, V R ^a   Maximenko, A ^b   Thiercelin, M ^b   Legros, J C ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b SCHLUMBERGER MOSCOW RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROGRAVITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUBILITY;

DISPLACEMENT PROCESS; ENTRAPMENT ZONES; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 34249891916     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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