Analytical solutions for co and counter-current imbibition of sorbing, dispersive solutes in immiscible two-phase flow

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 351-366

  Schmid, Karen Sophie ^a   Geiger, Sebastian ^a   Sorbie, Kenneth Stuart ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Analytical solutions; Dispersion; Mixing; Perturbation expansion; Spontaneous imbibition; Transport; Two phase flow; Welge tangent

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; DISPERSION; IMBIBITION; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; MIXING; SOLUTE; SOLUTION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84857914646     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-012-9282-6     Document Type: Article

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