Predictive pore-scale modeling of single and multiphase flow

Upscaling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media: From Pore to Core and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 23-41

  Valvatne, Per H ^a   Piri, Mohammad ^a   Lopez, Xavier ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

multiphase flow; pore scale modeling; relative permeability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892190755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3604-3_3     Document Type: Chapter

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