From pore scale to wellbore scale: Impact of geometry on wormhole growth in carbonate acidization

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3088-3099

  Cohen, Charles Edouard ^a   Ding, Didier ^a   Quintard, Michel ^b   Bazin, Brigitte ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b IMFT   (France)

Author keywords

Confinement; Dissolution; Porous media; Simulation; Transport processes; Wormhole

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

DISSOLUTION REGIMES; WORMHOLE COMPETITION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

CARBONATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; POROUS MATERIALS; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

EID: 44149116420     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.03.021     Document Type: Article

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