Immiscible fluid displacement in porous media: Experiments and simulations

Journal of Porous Media

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 423-435

  Krishnamoorthy, C P ^a   Deshpande, Abhijit P ^a   Pushpavanam, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Pore network modeling; Stable displacement; Viscous fingering

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; FLOW REGIMES; GLASS BEAD; HAGEN-POISEUILLE EQUATION; HORIZONTAL RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; NETWORK MODELS; NON-WETTING FLUIDS; PORE-NETWORK MODELING; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; POROUS MEDIUM; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; SECOND ORDERS; SELF-SIMILAR; SILICONE OIL; STABLE DISPLACEMENT; TIME INTERVAL; TIME STEP; TUBE LENGTH; TWO-REGIME; VISCOSITY RATIOS; VISCOUS FINGERING; WETTING FLUID;

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; GLYCEROL; LAMINAR FLOW; MONOLAYERS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SILICONES; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VISCOSITY; WETTING;

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EID: 79957505335     PISSN: 1091028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v14.i5.50     Document Type: Article

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