Simulation of flow and dispersion pore-space images

SPE Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1131-1141

  Mostaghimi, Peyman ^a   Bijeljic, Branko ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISPERSIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRIDS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE METHODS; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); MULTIGRID TECHNIQUE; PORE SPACE; PREDICTOR CORRECTOR PROCEDURE; ROCK CORE; SPACE IMAGE;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 84872531053     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/135261-pa     Document Type: Article

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