Specific interfacial area: The missing state variable in two-phase flow equations?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Joekar Niasar, V ^a   Hassanizadeh, S M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CLASSICAL EQUATION; DARCY'S EQUATIONS; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; DRIVING FORCES; DYNAMIC CONDITION; FLUID PRESSURES; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LOCAL PHASE; MACRO SCALE; NON-EQUILIBRIUM EFFECTS; NON-WETTING; ON DYNAMICS; PARAMETERIZED; PERMEABILITY COEFFICIENTS; PHASE TRANSIENT; PORE NETWORKS; PORE SCALE; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; POROUS MEDIUM; RATIONAL THERMODYNAMICS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY VOLUME; SIMULATION RESULT; SPECIFIC INTERFACIAL AREA; STATE VARIABLES; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; THERMODYNAMICS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

DARCY LAW; EQUATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE EFFECT; SATURATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VOLUME;

EID: 79957515570     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009291     Document Type: Article

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