Crossover from fractal capillary fingering to compact flow: The effect of stable viscosity ratios

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

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Ferer, M ^a   Bromhal, Grant S ^a   Smith, Duane H ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

NONWETTING FLUID; PORE-LEVEL MODEL; VISCOSITY RATIOS; WETTING FLUID;

FRACTALS;

EID: 35248815581     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.046304     Document Type: Article

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