Stabilizing effect of diffusion in enhanced oil recovery and three-layer Hele-Shaw flows with viscosity gradient

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-23

  Daripa, Prabir ^a   Pasa G ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Improved oil recovery; Stability of flows; Sturm Liouville problem; Three layer Hele Shaw flows; Upper bound

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DIFFUSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; VISCOSITY;

MOMENTUM EQUATION; POLYMER FLOODING; THREE-LAYER HELE-SHAW FLOW; VISCOSITY GRADIENT;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

ADVECTION; DIFFUSION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; VISCOSITY;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; DIFFUSION; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FLOW MODELING; HYDRODYNAMICS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34548035830     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-007-9122-7     Document Type: Article

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