Microscopic Roles of "Viscoelasticity" in HPMA polymer flooding for EOR

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 199-214

  Zhang, Zhen ^a   Li, Jiachun ^a   Zhou, Jifu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Constitutive equation; EOR; HPAM; Porous media; Viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; CHEMICAL FLOODING; DISPLACEMENT EFFICIENCY; ELASTIC EFFECTS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EOR; HPAM; INJECTION PRESSURES; LONG CHAIN MOLECULES; OIL RECOVERIES; PARTIALLY HYDROLYZED POLYACRYLAMIDE; POLYMER FLOODING; POROUS MEDIA; SIMULATED RESULTS; TRANSIENT NETWORK STRUCTURES; VISCOELASTIC; VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS; VISCOELASTIC POLYMERS;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; ELASTICITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOELASTICITY;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FLOODING; FLOW MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMER; POROUS MEDIUM; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 79951948993     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9616-6     Document Type: Article

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