Influence of wettability variations on dynamic effects in capillary pressure

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  O'Carroll, Denis M ^a   Mumford, Kevin G ^b   Abriola, Linda M ^c   Gerhard, Jason I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROACH TO EQUILIBRIUM; CAPILLARY PRESSURE-SATURATION RELATIONSHIP; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; DAMPING COEFFICIENTS; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; FLUID PROPERTY; INTERFACE MOVEMENT; MULTI-STEP; ON DYNAMICS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RATE OF CHANGE; TETRACHLOROETHENE; THEORETICAL MODELS; WATER-WET SYSTEMS; WET CONDITIONS; WETTABILITY VARIATION;

CAPILLARITY; CONTACT ANGLE; DAMPING; EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

CAPILLARY TUBES;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DAMPING; EQUILIBRIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OUTFLOW; SAND; SATURATION; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WETTABILITY;

EID: 77955566506     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008712     Document Type: Article

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