Comparison of Two-Phase Darcy's Law with a Thermodynamically Consistent Approach

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-148

  Niessner, Jennifer ^a   Berg, Steffen ^b   Hassanizadeh, S Majid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Interfacial area; Porous media; Thermodynamically consistent approach; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; DARCY'S LAW; DRIVING FORCES; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; INTERFACIAL AREAS; PHYSICALLY BASED; POROUS MEDIA; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SPECIFIC INTERFACIAL AREA; THERMODYNAMICALLY CONSISTENT APPROACH;

CAPILLARITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; SEEPAGE; TWO PHASE FLOW;

PHASE INTERFACES;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DARCY LAW; INTERFACE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 79955068633     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9730-0     Document Type: Article

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