Identification of fluid dynamics in forced gravity drainage using dimensionless groups

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 725-740

  Rostami, Behzad ^a   Kharrat, Riyaz ^b   Pooladi Darvish, Mehran ^c   Ghotbi, Cyrus ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bond number; Capillary number; Dimensionless groups; Forced gravity drainage

Indexed keywords

BOND NUMBERS; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; INJECTION RATES; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL VISCOSITY; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POROUS MEDIUM; POSITIVE EFFECTS;

CAPILLARITY; POROUS MATERIALS; RECOVERY;

EXPERIMENTS;

CORRELATION; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID INJECTION; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77953869313     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9478-y     Document Type: Article

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