Direct pore-level observation of permeability increase in two-phase flow by shaking

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Beresnev, Igor ^a   Gaul, William ^b   Vigil, R Dennis ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DROPS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVES; WETTING;

CAPILLARY CHANNELS; CAPILLARY FORCE; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; CRITICAL ACCELERATION; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FREE MOTION; HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS; MACROSCOPIC PERMEABILITY; NON-WETTING; OIL RESERVOIRS; ORGANIC FLUID; PERMEABILITY INCREASE; POROUS CHANNEL; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; TWO PHASE SYSTEMS; WETTING PHASE;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

AQUIFER; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DROPLET; ELASTIC WAVE; FLOW REGULATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SEISMIC WAVE; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WETTING;

EID: 80054773222     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048840     Document Type: Article

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