Two phase flows in porous media under microgravity conditions

Microgravity Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 155-160

  Dushin, Vladislav ^a   Nikitin, Valeriy ^a   Philippov, Yuri ^a   Smirnov, Nickolay ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Fingering; Instability; Non linearity; Porous media; Two phase flows

Indexed keywords

KETONES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

2-D DISPLACEMENT; 3-D MODELING; FINGERING; INSTABILITY; INTEGRAL PARAMETERS; MICRO-GRAVITY CONDITIONS; NON-LINEARITY; NUMBER OF FINGERS; POROUS MEDIA; TWO-PHASE FLOWS; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 49349103488     PISSN: 09380108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12217-008-9076-6     Document Type: Article

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