Measurement and prediction of the relationship between capillary pressure, saturation, and interfacial area in a NAPL-water-glass bead system

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Porter, Mark L ^a   Wildenschild, Dorthe ^a   Grant, Gavin ^b   Gerhard, Jason I ^c  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D SURFACE; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FLUID INTERFACIAL AREA; GLASS BEAD; INTERFACIAL AREAS; NON-WETTING; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; PHASE SATURATIONS; RESIDUAL SATURATION; SCANNING CURVES; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONS;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; FORECASTING; HYSTERESIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CURVATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLASS; HYSTERESIS; IMBIBITION; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; SATURATED MEDIUM; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955563008     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007786     Document Type: Article

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