A pore network model study of the fluid-fluid interfacial areas measured by dynamic-interface tracer depletion and miscible displacement water phase advective tracer methods

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kibbey, Tohren C G ^a   Chen, Lixia ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA MEASUREMENT; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC-INTERFACE; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; INTERFACIAL AREAS; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; TRACER MEASUREMENT; TRACER METHODS; WATER PHASE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS;

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS;

ADVECTION; DATA SET; DISCHARGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILM; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; HYDROGEOLOGY; INTERFACE; MASS TRANSFER; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867522473     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011862     Document Type: Article

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