Analytical Solutions to Gas Flow Problems in Low Permeability Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 421-436

  Beygi, Mahdi Esmail ^a   Rashidi, Fariborz ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Darcy's law; Dual mechanism flow; Real gas pseudo pressure; Steady state

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; APPLICATION EXAMPLES; CORE PLUGS; DARCY FLOWS; DARCY'S LAW; DIFFUSION EFFECTS; DUAL MECHANISMS; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; FIELD TESTING; FLOW GEOMETRIES; GAS DIFFUSION; GAS FLOWS; HOMOGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; LABORATORY ANALYSIS; LOW PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIA; PSEUDO PRESSURE; REAL GAS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE FLOWS;

DIFFUSION; FLOW OF GASES; FLUID DYNAMICS; GASES; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LABORATORIES; POROUS MATERIALS; SEEPAGE;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

DARCY LAW; DIFFUSION; FLOW MODELING; GAS FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 79952735220     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9692-7     Document Type: Article

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