Microscale Visual Study of End Effects at Permeability Discontinuities

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 601-616

  Dawe, Richard A ^a   Caruana, Albert ^b   Grattoni, Carlos A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b Grand Harbour Marina Ltd   (Malta)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Drainage; Flow mechanisms; Heterogeneity; Imbibition; Immiscible displacement; Microscale model; Miscible displacement; Upscaling; Wettability

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; FLOW MECHANISMS; HETEROGENEITY; IMBIBITION; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; MICRO-SCALES; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; UPSCALING; WETTABILITY;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; FLUIDS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; WETTING;

MODELS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; HETEROGENEITY; IMBIBITION; PERMEABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UPSCALING; WETTABILITY;

EID: 79953195469     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9642-4     Document Type: Article

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