Pore-Level Observation of Free Gravity Drainage of Oil in Fractured Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 561-584

  Mashayekhizadeh, Vahid ^a   Ghazanfari, Mohammad Hossein ^b   Kharrat, Riyaz ^a   Dejam, Morteza ^b  

^a PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fracture aperture; Fracture tilt angle; Free gravity drainage; Front geometry; Glass micromodels; Liquid bridge; Oil; Pore level

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE APERTURES; FREE GRAVITY DRAINAGE; FRONT GEOMETRY; GLASS MICROMODELS; LIQUID BRIDGE; OIL; PORE LEVEL;

CRUDE OIL; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; GEOMETRY; GLASS; POROUS MATERIALS; RECOVERY;

LIQUIDS;

DRAINAGE; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURED MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL PRODUCTION; POROUS MEDIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952765794     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9701-x     Document Type: Article

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