Relative permeabilities for strictly hyperbolic models of three-phase flow in porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-152

  Juanes, Ruben ^a   Patzek, Tadeusz W ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation laws; Elliptic regions; Hyperbolic system; Oak experiments; Relative permeability; Three phase flow

Indexed keywords

DARCY EQUATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; PERMEABILITY;

CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

POROUS MATERIALS;

DARCY LAW; FLOW MODELING; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; THREE-PHASE FLOW;

DARCY LAW; FLOW MODELING; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; THREE PHASE FLOW;

EID: 4344645364     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TIPM.0000038251.10002.5e     Document Type: Article

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