Dynamic effects in capillary pressure relationships for two-phase flow in porous media: Experiments and numerical analyses

AIChE Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3891-3903

  Das, Diganta Bhusan ^a   Mirzaei, Mahsanam ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Dynamic effect; Porous media; Quasi static flow; Saturation; Transient flow; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC COEFFICIENT; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; EXPONENTIAL TRENDS; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE; MEASUREMENT POINTS; MEDIUM PERMEABILITY; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; POROUS DOMAIN; QUASI-STATIC; TRANSIENT FLOW; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

CAPILLARY TUBES; EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TWO PHASE FLOW;

CAPILLARITY;

EID: 84868708118     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.13777     Document Type: Article

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