Microtomography of Imbibition Phenomena and Trapping Mechanism

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-257

  Setiawan, Arief ^a   Nomura, Hidenori ^a   Suekane, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Imbibition; Pore scale; Trapping; Waterflooding; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FORCES; CAPILLARY FORCE; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; FINGERING PHENOMENA; GLASS BEAD; IMBIBITION; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; MICRO-TOMOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS; MICROSCOPIC VIEWPOINT; NETWORK SCALE; NON-WETTING; OIL EXTRACTION; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL RECOVERIES; PORE CONFIGURATION; PORE-SCALE; POROUS ROCKS; SMALL CLUSTERS; SPEED DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION; TRAPPING; TRAPPING MECHANISMS; WATER BREAKTHROUGH; WATER IMBIBITION; WETTING PHASE; X-RAY CT; X-RAY CT SCANNER;

POROUS MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION; WELL FLOODING;

X RAYS;

FLUID INJECTION; IMBIBITION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL PRODUCTION; POROUS MEDIUM; RESERVOIR FLOODING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRAP (GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE); VISUALIZATION; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84857787896     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9899-2     Document Type: Article

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