Viscous fingering instability in porous media: Effect of anisotropic velocity-dependent dispersion tensor

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 297-318

  Ghesmat, Karim ^a   Azaiez, Jalel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropic velocity dependent dispersion tensor; Linear stability analysis; Nonlinear simulations; Porous media; Viscous fingering

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VELOCITY; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS;

MISCIBLE FLOW; RELATIVE CONTACT AREA; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; VISCOUS FINGERING;

VISCOUS FLOW;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VELOCITY; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOUS FLOW;

DISPERSION; FINGERING; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 44349111799     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-007-9171-y     Document Type: Article

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