The Blocking Ability and Flowing Characteristics of Steady Foams in Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 299-316

  Pang, Zhan Xi ^a,b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b MOE Key Laboratory of Petroleum Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

Blocking ability; Flowing characteristics; Foams; Porous media; Steady state

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING ABILITY; BLOCKING MECHANISMS; DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; FLOWING CHARACTERISTICS; FOAM FLOW; FOAM GENERATION; FOAMING AGENT; INFLUENCE FACTORS; INJECTION RATES; MAXIMAL VALUES; OIL SATURATION; POROUS MEDIA; RESISTANCE FACTORS; SAND PACK; SHEARING RATES; STEADY STATE; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS;

GAS PERMEABILITY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VELOCITY; FOAM; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 77956886909     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9563-2     Document Type: Article

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