Mechanisms of capillary-controlled immiscible fluid flow in fractionally wet porous media

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 610-623

  Motealleh, Siyavash ^a   Ashouripashaki, Mandana ^b   di Carlo, David ^b   Bryant, Steven ^b  

^a Univ of Texas at Austin ^*  (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; SOLVENTS; WETTING;

FLUID INTERFACE; IMMISCIBLE FLUID FLOWS; INVASION PERCOLATION; NEGATIVE VALUES; PORE-SCALE MODEL; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; WATER-OIL SYSTEMS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

CAPILLARITY; DRAINAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; FRACTIONATION; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE EFFECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WETTABILITY;

EID: 79960215305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2009.0059     Document Type: Article

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