Impact of geometrical properties on permeability and fluid phase distribution in porous media

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1188-1204

  Lehmann, P ^a,b   Berchtold, M ^a   Ahrenholz, B ^c   Tolke J ^c   Kaestner, A ^a   Krafczyk, M ^c   Fluhler H ^a   Kunsch H R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial structure; Boolean model; Lattice Boltzmann method; Minkowski functionals; Permeability; Pore size; Porous media; Water retention function

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURE; ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES; BOOLEAN MODEL; FLUID-PHASE; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES; LATTICE-BOLTZMANN METHOD; MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS; ON FLOW; PERMEABILITY; PORE SIZE; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUMS; WATER RETENTION CURVES; WATER RETENTION FUNCTION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; FLOW MODELING; GEOMETRY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROPORE; PERMEABILITY; PORE PRESSURE; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TWO PHASE FLOW; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 50349092753     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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