From Local Measurements to an Upscaled Capillary Pressure-Saturation Curve

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 271-291

  Bottero, S ^a,b   Hassanizadeh, S M ^a   Kleingeld, P J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Average pressure; Capillary pressure saturation relationship; Two phase flow experiments

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE OPERATOR; AVERAGE PRESSURE; AVERAGING OPERATORS; BOUNDARY PRESSURE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE-SATURATION RELATIONSHIP; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; DOMAIN SIZE; EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTIONS; EXTERNAL PRESSURES; LOCAL MEASUREMENT; NON-WETTING; NUMERICAL MODELING; REFERENCE CURVES; SATURATION MEASUREMENT; TWO-PHASE FLOW EXPERIMENTS;

CAPILLARY TUBES; EXPERIMENTS; PHASE METERS; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING;

CAPILLARITY;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 79955798868     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9739-4     Document Type: Article

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