A Multi-Scale Approach to Model Two-Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 525-536

  Tsakiroglou, Christos D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Heterogeneous media; Multi scale models; Network analysis; Relative permeability; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DISTRIBUTION; CUBIC LATTICE; GRAVITY FORCES; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; INFORMATION CONCERNING; LENGTH SCALE; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; MULTISCALE MODELS; MULTISCALES; NETWORK TYPES; NON-WETTING; POROUS MEDIUM; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY FUNCTIONS; SITE PERCOLATION; STRUCTURE PROPERTY; VISCOUS FORCES; WETTING FLUID;

CAPILLARITY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GRAVITATION; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING;

POROUS MATERIALS;

IMMISCIBLE FLUID; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCOLATION; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE DROP; SOIL MECHANICS; TWO PHASE FLOW; WETTING;

EID: 84865499017     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9882-y     Document Type: Article

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