Nonequilibrium capillarity effects in two-phase flow through porous media at different scales

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

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

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY PRESSURE; DIFFERENT SCALE; DRAINAGE EXPERIMENTS; DYNAMIC COEFFICIENT; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; INJECTION PRESSURES; INLET BOUNDARY; LENGTH SCALE; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NON-WETTING; NONMONOTONIC BEHAVIORS; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; SAND COLUMNS; SATURATION CURVE; SATURATION RANGE; SCALE OF OBSERVATION; SENSOR DEVICE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENES; WINDOW SIZE;

CAPILLARITY; EXPERIMENTS; POROUS MATERIALS; SENSORS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARITY; FLUID PRESSURE; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WETTING;

EID: 80054048821     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010887     Document Type: Article

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