Transport in highly heterogeneous porous media: From direct simulation to macro-scale two-equation models or mixed models

Chemical Product and Process Modeling

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Gérald, Debenest ^a   Quintard, Michel ^a  

^a IMFT   (France)

Author keywords

double porosity; heterogeneous system; mixed models; porous media

Indexed keywords

AVERAGED MODELS; CATALYTIC BEDS; COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; DIRECT SIMULATION; DOUBLE-POROSITY; FRACTURED MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; MACRO SCALE; MIXED MODELS; MULTI-PHYSICS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TWO-EQUATION MODEL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80455150324     PISSN: 19342659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1934-2659.1130     Document Type: Article

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