Green Element solution of one-dimensional counter-current spontaneous imbibition in water wet porous media

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 70, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 302-307

  Delijani, Ebrahim Biniaz ^a   Pishvaie, Mahmoud Reza ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

boundary element method; capillary forces; counter current imbibition; Green Element Method; oil reservoir simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CAPILLARY FORCE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; COUNTER CURRENT; COUNTER-CURRENT IMBIBITION; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; ELEMENT BY ELEMENTS; GREEN ELEMENT METHOD; NON-LINEARITY; NUMERICAL FORMULATION; OIL RESERVOIR SIMULATION; POROUS MEDIA; PROBLEM DOMAIN; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; TIME-DEPENDENT; WET ROCKS; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GEMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GREEN FUNCTION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; INTERPOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM; WATER FLOW;

EID: 74149089350     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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