Two-Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media with Non-Wetting Phase Trapping

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-47

  Szymkiewicz, Adam ^a   Helmig, Rainer ^b   Kuhnke, Hartmut ^b  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capillary trapping; Homogenization; Two phase flow modeling; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC HOMOGENIZATION; BRINE FLOW; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CAPILLARY TRAPPING; FLOW EQUATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIUM; HOMOGENIZATION; HYDRAULIC FUNCTIONS; LOCAL EQUILIBRIUM; MACROSCOPIC SCALE; NON-WETTING; NON-WETTING FLUIDS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OIL-WATER; TWO-FLUID; TWO-PHASE FLOW MODELING; UPSCALING; WETTING PHASE;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; FLOW CONTROL; FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

WETTING;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO PHASE FLOW; UPSCALING; WETTING;

EID: 79951957762     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9604-x     Document Type: Article

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