Nonequilibrium Effects and Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 373-394

  Aryana, Saman A ^a   Kovscek, Anthony R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive relationships; Drainage; Multiphase flow; Nonequilibrium effects; Porous media; Redistribution time; Unstable displacement

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; POROUS MATERIALS;

CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; MULTIPHASE FLOW IN POROUS MEDIAS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM EFFECTS; NONLINEAR PHYSICS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; REDISTRIBUTION TIME; TIME AVERAGES; UNSTABLE DISPLACEMENT;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

DRAINAGE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; TRANSIENT FLOW;

EID: 84874696870     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-013-0129-y     Document Type: Article

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