Crossover from capillary fingering to viscous fingering for immiscible unstable flow: Experiment and modeling

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

Volumn 70, Issue 1 2, 2004, Pages

  Ferer, M ^a,b   Ji, Chuang ^a,c   Bromhal, Grant S ^a   Cook, Joshua ^a,c   Ahmadi, Goodarz ^a,c   Smith, Duane H ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT ANGLE; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

CAPILLARY FINGERING; DIFFUSION-LIMITED AGGREGATION (DLA); FLOW CELLS; INVASION PERCOLATION;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 37649031463     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.016303     Document Type: Article

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