Two-phase and three-phase saturation routes and relative permeability during fast drainage

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1333-1342

  Dehghanpour, H ^a   DiCarlo, D A ^a   Aminzadeh, B ^a   Mirzaei, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BEHAVIOR; DRAINAGE EXPERIMENTS; DUAL-ENERGY CT; GRAVITATIONAL GRADIENT; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; NON-LINEAR; PHASE SATURATIONS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SAND COLUMNS; SATURATION PROFILES; SPACE AND TIME; THREE-PHASE RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; WATER SATURATIONS;

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EID: 77954202745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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