Pore-scale imbibition experiments in dry and prewetted porous media

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2373-2386

  Ovdat, Hanita ^a   Berkowitz, Brian ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fingering; Gravity unstable flow; Immiscible displacement; Laser induced fluorescence

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CAPILLARY FLOW; DRAINAGE; FLUORESCENCE; SOLUBILITY; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW; WETTING;

CAPILLARY NUMBER; GRAVITY-UNSTABLE FLOW; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; INITIAL WETTING SATURATION; LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE;

POROUS MATERIALS;

BUOYANCY; CAPILLARY FLOW; DRAINAGE; FLUORESCENCE; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUBILITY; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW; WETTING;

FLOW MODELING; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; POROUS MEDIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 34548322701     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.05.011     Document Type: Article

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