Visualization of micro-scale gas bubbles trapped in sandstones

Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2501-2507

  Suekane, Tetsuya ^a   Kutsuna, Hideo ^b   Hosokawa, Takahiro ^b   Matsumoto, Takuya ^b   Kiyota, Masanori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Porous media; Residual gas trapping; Two phase flow; X ray CT scanning

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CARBON DIOXIDE; GASES; PORE STRUCTURE; POROUS MATERIALS; SANDSTONE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING; X RAYS;

GEOLOGICAL STORAGE; HIGH RESOLUTION; MICROSCOPIC POINTS; PORE DIAMETERS; RESIDUAL GAS TRAPPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; X-RAY CT; X-RAY CT SCANNER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 62649148411     PISSN: 03875016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.74.2501     Document Type: Article

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