Thermodynamic model for fluid-fluid interfacial areas in porous media for arbitrary drainage-imbibition sequences

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 966-971

  Schroth, Martin H ^a   Oostrom, Mart ^b   Dobson, Richard ^a   Zeyer, Josef ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOW MODELING; IMBIBITION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SILT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 49949106445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2007.0185     Document Type: Article

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