Horizontal redistribution of fluids in a porous medium: The role of interfacial area in modeling hysteresis

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 383-390

  Pop, I S ^a   van Duijn, C J ^a   Niessner, J ^b   Hassanizadeh, S M ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Interfacial area model; Porous media flow; Redistribution; Similarity solution

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BALANCE EQUATIONS; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; INTERFACIAL AREA MODEL; MACRO-SCALE; MACRO-SCALE MODELS; MODELING STUDIES; MULTI-PHASE FLOWS; NEW MODELS; NEW THEORIES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PORE SCALE; POROUS MEDIA FLOW; POROUS MEDIUMS; REDISTRIBUTION; REFERENCE SOLUTIONS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; SIMILARITY TRANSFORMATIONS; TWO FLUIDS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

FLOW MODELING; HYSTERESIS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 61349104308     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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