Modelling two-phase flow in porous media at the pore scale using the volume-of-fluid method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5653-5668

  Raeini, Ali Q ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a   Bijeljic, Branko ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pore scale modelling; Porous media; Two phase flow; Volume of fluid

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARY FORCE; FLOWS IN POROUS MEDIA; LOW CAPILLARY NUMBERS; MULTIPHASE FLOW IN POROUS MEDIAS; PORE SCALE; PORE-SCALE MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO PHASES FLOW; VOLUME OF FLUIDS; VOLUME-OF-FLUID METHOD;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84862882169     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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