Experimental study of liquid-gas flow structure effects on relative permeabilities in a fracture

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Chen, Chih Ying ^a   Horne, Roland N ^a   Fourar, Mostafa ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Flow pattern; Flow structure; Fracture; Multiphase flow; Relative permeability; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; VISCOSITY;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLOW STRUCTURES; VISCOUS COUPLING MODELS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW PATTERN; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; TORTUOSITY;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW STRUCTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 4544302333     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003026     Document Type: Article

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