Dimensional analysis of two-phase flow including a rate-dependent capillary pressure-saturation relationship

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1137-1150

  Manthey, Sabine ^a   Hassanizadeh, S Majid ^b   Helmig, Rainer ^a   Hilfer, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure saturation relationship; Dimensional analysis; Dimensionless numbers; Rate dependence; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE-SATURATION RELATIONSHIP; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; HYDRO-SYSTEMS; RATE DEPENDENCE;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 50149084669     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.01.021     Document Type: Article

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