Roles of transient and local equilibrium foam behavior in porous media: Traveling wave

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 377, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 228-242

  Ashoori, E ^a   Marchesin, D ^b   Rossen, W R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b IMPA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Enhanced oil recovery; Foam in porous media; Method of characteristics; Population balance foam model; Shock front

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; ENHANCED RECOVERY; POROUS MATERIALS; SHOCK WAVES; TEXTURES;

BUBBLE SIZE; COMPLEX DYNAMICS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; ENTRANCE REGION; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; FIELD SCALE; FOAM DYNAMICS; FOAM GENERATION; FOAM PROPERTIES; INJECTION RATES; LOCAL EQUILIBRIUM; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIPLE STEADY STATE; POPULATION BALANCES; POROUS MEDIA; SHOCK FRONT; SHOCK FRONTS; SHOCK TRANSITION; TRAVELING WAVE; WATER FLOOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FLOW KINETICS; FOAM STABILITY; FOAMING; GAS; OSCILLATION; POROSITY; PREDICTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK WAVE; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; THEORY;

EID: 79952040857     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.12.042     Document Type: Article

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