Measurement of Capillary Pressure Curve of DNAPL in a Water-Saturated Sandstone Fracture

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 614-624

  Weerakone, W M S B ^a   Wong, R C K ^a   Mehrotra, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; DNPAL water flow; Fracture aperture; Sandstone; Saturation; Undulation

Indexed keywords

APERTURE DISTRIBUTION; CAPILLARY BARRIER DESIGN; CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES; DENSE NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; DNPAL-WATER FLOW; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE SURFACES; INVASION PERCOLATION; INVASION PROCESS; IP MODELS; L-SHAPED; NON-WETTING; PARALLEL-PLATE CHANNELS; PHASE SATURATIONS; POROUS MEDIUM; SMALL APERTURE; UNDULATION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; POROUS MATERIALS; SANDSTONE; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FRACTURE;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE APERTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SANDSTONE; SATURATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84860805956     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000590     Document Type: Article

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