Consistent capillary pressure and relative permeability for mixed-wet systems in macroscopic three-phase flow simulation

ECMOR 2008 - 11th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Holm, R ^a   Van Dijke, M I J ^b   Geiger, S ^b   Espedal, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SIMULATORS; WETTING;

CAPILLARY BUNDLE MODELS; COMPLEX NETWORK MODELS; CYLINDRICAL CAPILLARY TUBES; PHASE SATURATIONS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; RESIDUAL SATURATION;

CAPILLARY TUBES;

EID: 84896350311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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