Modeling the effect of viscosity ratio on spontaneous imbibition

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 577-589

  Fischer, Herbert ^a,c   Wo, Shaochang ^b   Morrow, Norman R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; POLYMER BLENDS; RADIAL FLOW;

COUNTER-CURRENT FLOW; INTERFACIAL CURVATURE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NEW MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPEN BOUNDARY CONDITION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PISTON-LIKE DISPLACEMENT; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION;

VISCOSITY;

BEREA SANDSTONE; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; IMBIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 48749101392     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/102641-pa     Document Type: Article

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