The impact of wettability and connectivity on relative permeability in carbonates: A pore network modeling analysis

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Gharbi, Oussama ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE COORDINATION NUMBER; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; DISPLACEMENT MECHANISMS; FIELD SCALE; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; INDIANA; OIL RECOVERY PROCESS; PORE SPACE; PORE-NETWORK MODELING; QUASI-STATIC DISPLACEMENT; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONS; WATER FLOOD; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

AQUIFERS; CARBONATES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; WELL FLOODING;

WETTING;

AQUIFER; CARBONATE; CONNECTIVITY; COORDINATE; DISPLACEMENT; FLOODING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PORE SPACE; QUARRY; RECOVERY; TOPOLOGY; WETTABILITY;

AUSTRALIA; INDIANA; MIDDLE EAST; MOUNT GAMBIER; OREGON; PORTLAND [OREGON]; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871381232     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011877     Document Type: Article

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