Pore-scale modelling of rate effects in waterflooding

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 151-169

  Idowu, Nasiru A ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buckley Leverett; Pore scale modelling; Rate dependence; Stochastic networks

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; DISPLACEMENT PATTERNS; LARGE NETWORKS; MACRO SCALE; MOBILITY RATIOS; NETWORK MODELS; NON-WETTING; PARTIAL FILLING; RATE EFFECTS; RATE-DEPENDENCE; STOCHASTIC NETWORKS; TIME-DEPENDENT; VELOCITY PROFILES; VISCOUS FORCES; WATER FLOOD; WATERFLOODING; WETTING LAYER;

CONTACT ANGLE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WELL FLOODING;

WETTING;

ALGORITHM; FLUID INJECTION; MOBILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; STOCHASTICITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 77951442897     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9468-0     Document Type: Article

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