Direct pore-level modeling of incompressible fluid flow in porous media

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 7456-7476

  Ovaysi, Saeed ^a   Piri, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Incompressible fluid flow; Micro CT X ray imaging; Moving particle semi implicit; Particle based methods; Porous media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; STEADY FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

CT IMAGE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOW; LEVEL MODEL; MICRO CT; MICRO-CT X-RAY IMAGING; MOVING PARTICLE SEMI-IMPLICIT; PARTICLE-BASED METHODS; POROUS MEDIUM; ROCK SAMPLE; STEADY-STATE FLOWS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 77955273394     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.06.028     Document Type: Article

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