Predictive model for permeability reduction by small wetting phase saturations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Motealleh, Siyavash ^a   Bryant, Steven L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROSITY; WETTING;

GRAIN-SCALE EXPLANATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; WETTING PHASE SATURATIONS;

GAS PERMEABILITY;

FLOW OF WATER; GAS PERMEABILITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROSITY; WETTING;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; MODELING; PERMEABILITY; SATURATION; SIMULATION; WETTING;

EID: 38549163722     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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