A dynamic network-type simulator to investigate the multiphase flow properties of heterogeneous soils

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 285-294

  Tsakiroglou, C D ^a   Sygouni, V ^a   Aggelopoulos, C A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; AXIAL DISTRIBUTION; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DYNAMIC NETWORK; FAST METHODS; FLUID SATURATIONS; GRAVITY FORCES; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; INJECTED FLUIDS; INLET PRESSURES; INSTANTANEOUS FLOW; INVERSE MODELING; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; MASS BALANCE; MICROHETEROGENEITY; MULTI-PHASE FLOW PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL GRIDS; OIL RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTION; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; PORE NETWORKS; PORE SPACE; PREFERENTIAL PATHWAYS; QUASISTATIC SIMULATIONS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY FUNCTIONS; SOIL COLUMN; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TIME STEP; TOTAL PRESSURE DROP; TRANSIENT RESPONSE; TWO-FLUID; UNDISTURBED SOILS; UPSCALING; VISCOSITY RATIOS;

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FLUIDS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRAVITATION; INLET FLOW; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EQUATION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL; PERMEABILITY; SATURATION; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL WATER;

EID: 77955446851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2009.0064     Document Type: Article

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