Critical capillary number: Desaturation studied with fast X-ray computed microtomography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 55-60

  Armstrong, Ryan T ^a   Georgiadis, Apostolos ^a   Ott, Holger ^a   Klemin, Denis ^b   Berg, Steffen ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

capillary number; desaturation; microtomography; multiphase flow; pore scale

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCE; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; DESATURATION; MICRO-TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CLUSTERS; PORE SCALE; SUBSURFACE FLOW; X-RAY COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

CAPILLARITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY;

CALCIUM;

CAPILLARITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERN; INTERFACE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; PORE SPACE; SATURATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TENSION;

EID: 84896708164     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058075     Document Type: Article

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