Simulating drainage and imbibition experiments in a high-porosity micromodel using an unstructured pore network model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Niasar, V Joekar ^a   Hassanizadeh, S M ^a   Pyrak Nolte, L J ^b   Berentsen, C ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIAS; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PORE NETWORKS; PORE SPACES; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; POROUS MEDIUMS; STATIC CONDITIONS; TOPOLOGICAL DATUM;

PIXELS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DRAINAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IMBIBITION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PIXEL; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; TOPOLOGY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 62949174206     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006641     Document Type: Article

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