Experimental investigation of dynamic effects in capillary pressure: Grain size dependency and upscaling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Camps Roach, Geremy ^a   O'Carroll, Denis M ^a   Newson, Timothy A ^a   Sakaki, Toshihiro ^b   Illangasekare, Tissa H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR PRESSURES; AIR SPARGING; AIR-WATER; CAPILLARY PRESSURE-SATURATION RELATIONSHIP; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; DESATURATION; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DYNAMIC COEFFICIENT; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FINE GRAINED SOIL; FLUID PROPERTY; FLUID-PHASE; GRAIN SIZE; IN-PHASE PRESSURE; LONG COLUMN; MACROSCOPIC FLOW; MEAN-GRAIN SIZE; NONUNIQUENESS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHASE SATURATIONS; POROUS MEDIA; SAND COLUMNS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STATIC CONDITIONS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; THERMODYNAMIC THEORY; UPSCALING; WATER DRAINAGE; WATER SATURATIONS;

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; ENHANCED RECOVERY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

BLOOD VESSELS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DRAINAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; GRAIN SIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; PRESSURE EFFECT; SATURATION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 77956310877     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008881     Document Type: Article

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