Rheological transition during foam flow in porous media

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 10225-10231

  Simjoo, M ^a   Nguyen, Q P ^b   Zitha, P L J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; CRITICAL GAS SATURATION; CT DATA; DISPLACEMENT PROCESS; FOAM FLOW; GAS SATURATIONS; NITROGEN FOAM; RHEOLOGICAL TRANSITION; SANDSTONE CORES; SHARP TRANSITION; SURFACTANT SOLUTION; WATER SATURATIONS;

POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864477127     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie202218z     Document Type: Article

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