Three-phase displacement theory: An improved description of relative permeabilities

SPE Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 302-313

  Juanes, Ruben ^a   Patzek, Tad W ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROSITY; VISCOSITY;

DISPLACEMENT THEORY; IMMISCIBLE FLOW; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; THREE PHASE FLOW;

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

EID: 4744352201     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/88973-PA     Document Type: Article

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