Dynamic effects for two-phase flow in porous media: Fluid property effects

AIChE Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2505-2520

  Das, Diganta Bhusan ^a,b   Gauldie, Robert ^a   Mirzaei, Mahsanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Dynamic effect; Fluid property; Nonaqueous phase liquids; Porous medium; Relative permeability; Saturation; Scaling relations; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SCALING LAWS; VISCOSITY;

DYNAMIC EFFECT; FLOW DIRECTIONS; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; PERCHLOROETHYLENE; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SCALING LAWS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 35248838869     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11292     Document Type: Article

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