Flow regimes for the immiscible liquidliquid displacement in capillary tubes with complete wetting of the displaced liquid

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 641, Issue , 2009, Pages 63-84

  Soares, Edson J ^a   Thompson, Roney L ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Capillary flows; Core annular flows; Hele Shaw porous media

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; FLOW PATTERNS; LIQUIDS; MESH GENERATION; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; COMPLETE WETTING; CORE-ANNULAR FLOW; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; GENERATION TECHNIQUES; HELE-SHAW; IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS; LIQUID-LIQUID DISPLACEMENTS;

CAPILLARITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW PATTERN; GALERKIN METHOD; IMMISCIBILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; VISCOSITY; WETTING;

EID: 76249108789     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009991546     Document Type: Article

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