Influence of viscous and capillary forces on immiscible fluid displacement: Pore-scale experimental study in a water-wet micromodel demonstrating viscous and capillary fingering

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3493-3505

  Zhang, Changyong ^a   Oostrom, Mart ^a   Wietsma, Thomas W ^a   Grate, Jay W ^a   Warner, Marvin G ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FINGERING; CAPILLARY FORCE; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISPLACEMENT STABILITY; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLUID SATURATIONS; FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; INJECTION RATES; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LOW CAPILLARY NUMBERS; MICROFABRICATED; MICROMODELS; NON-WETTING; NON-WETTING FLUIDS; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 200; PORE NETWORKS; PORE SCALE; SATURATION DISTRIBUTION; VISCOSITY RATIOS; VISCOUS FINGERING; VISCOUS FORCES; WETTING FLUID;

CAPILLARITY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTS; GLYCOLS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PARAFFINS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY; WETTING;

FLUIDS;

EID: 80051938375     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef101732k     Document Type: Article

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