Correlation between pressure gradient and phase saturation for oil-water flow in smooth- and rough-walled parallel-plate models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Wong, R C K ^a   Pan, X ^a   Maini, B B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW PATTERNS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; VISCOSITY;

MIXED FLOWS; VISCOSITY RATIO;

FLOW OF WATER;

CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW PATTERNS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; VISCOSITY;

FLUID FLOW; MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VISCOSITY; WATER FLOW;

EID: 41149178988     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006043     Document Type: Article

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