A level set method for simulating capillary-controlled displacements at the pore scale with nonzero contact angles

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4645-4661

  Jettestuen, Espen ^a   Helland, Johan O ^a   Prodanovic̈, Maša ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D pore geometry; capillary pressure; contact angle; level set method

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTACT ANGLE; DROP BREAKUP; GEOMETRY; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; POROUS MATERIALS;

IMBIBITION PROCESS; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL-SET EQUATION; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; PORE GEOMETRY; SPECIFIC INTERFACIAL AREA; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TWO-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84880947646     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20334     Document Type: Article

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