Comparison of pressure-saturation characteristics derived from computed tomography and lattice Boltzmann simulations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Schaap, Marcel G ^a   Porter, Mark L ^b   Christensen, Britt S B ^c   Wildenschild, Dorthe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MULTIPHASE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; TOMOGRAPHY; WETTING;

LB SIMULATIONS; NONWETTING BOUNDARY; WATER-SOLTROL SYSTEM;

POROUS MATERIALS;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; TOMOGRAPHY; WETTING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SIMULATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38549159545     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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