Effective correlation of apparent gas permeability in tight porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 375-384

  Civan, Faruk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent gas permeability; Klinkenberg gas slippage factor; Rarefaction coefficient; Tight porous media; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; GAS SLIPPAGE; GASEOUS FLOW; HAGEN-POISEUILLE; INTRINSIC PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIA; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; RAREFACTION COEFFICIENT;

CAPILLARITY; GASES; GROUNDWATER FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

GAS PERMEABILITY;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; GAS FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; TORTUOSITY;

EID: 77951498171     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9432-z     Document Type: Article

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