Microvisual investigation of foam flow in ideal fractures: Role of fracture aperture and surface roughness

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 2288-2304

  Buchgraber, Markus ^a   Castanier, L M ^a   Kovscek, A R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; ELASTICITY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEXTURES;

CHECKERBOARD PATTERNS; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; REAL TIME OBSERVATION; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; SURFACTANT SOLUTION;

FOAM CONTROL;

EID: 84874092300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/159430-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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