Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media: Predicting Its Dependence on Capillary Number and Viscosity Ratio

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 243-259

  Ferer, M ^a,b   Anna, Shelley L ^a,c   Tortora, Paul ^a,c   Kadambi, J R ^d   Oliver, M ^d   Bromhal, Grant S ^a   Smith, Duane H ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Drainage; Micro fluidics; Pore level modeling; Viscosity ratios

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY EFFECTS; CAPILLARY FINGERING; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLUIDIC FLOW; LEVEL MODEL; PORE-LEVEL MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER-LAW; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; VISCOSITY RATIOS; VISCOUS FINGERING;

CAPILLARITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISPENSERS; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDICS; FORECASTING; FRACTALS; POLYMER BLENDS; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

VISCOSITY;

DRAINAGE; FINGERING; FLOW MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 79951945682     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9619-3     Document Type: Article

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