Immiscible displacement of oil by water in consolidated porous media due to capillary imbibition under ultrasonic waves

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1539-1555

  Hamida, Tarek ^a,b   Babadagli, Tayfun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (EOR); IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT;

POROUS MATERIALS;

ALCOHOL; ANIONIC SURFACTANT; NONIONIC SURFACTANT; OIL; POLYMER; WATER; XANTHAN;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; DENSITY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSION; ULTRASOUND; VISCOSITY;

ACOUSTICS; CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL OILS; KINETICS; POROSITY; SOLUBILITY; ULTRASONICS; VIBRATION; WATER;

EID: 35248827015     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2756190     Document Type: Article

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