Network model investigation of interfacial area, capillary pressure and saturation relationships in granular porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Joekar Niasar, V ^a   Prodanovic M ^b   Wildenschild, D ^c   Hassanizadeh, S M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CROSS SECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE; EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; GLASS BEAD; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GRANULAR POROUS MEDIA; INTERFACIAL AREAS; NETWORK MODELS; NEW APPROACHES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCES; PORE NETWORKS; PORE THROAT; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; POROUS MEDIUM; QUASI-STATIC; SCANNING CURVES; SHAPE FACTOR; SIMULATION RESULT; SPECIFIC INTERFACIAL AREA; TWO-FLUID; VARIABLE COORDINATION;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; EXPERIMENTS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYSTERESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; GRANULAR MEDIUM; HYSTERESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMBIBITION; MODEL VALIDATION; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 77954392068     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008585     Document Type: Article

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