Unified model of drainage and imbibition in 3D fractionally wet porous media

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 3067-3090

  Motealleh, Siyavash ^a   Ashouripashaki, Mandana ^a   DiCarlo, David ^a   Bryant, Steven L ^b  

^a SPE ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; CONTACT ANGLE; FILLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; STABILITY CRITERIA;

DELAUNAY TESSELLATIONS; INTERFACE LOCATIONS; INTERFACE POSITION; MULTIPLE GRAINS; PHASE SATURATIONS; SATURATION CURVE; UNIFIED MODELING; VORONOI TESSELLATIONS;

WETTING;

EID: 78349301646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/124771-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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