A modeling approach to represent hysteresis in capillary pressure-saturation relationship based on fluid connectivity in void space

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 119-131

  Cihan, Abdullah ^a   Birkholzer, Jens ^a   Illangasekare, Tissa H ^b   Zhou, Quanlin ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

capillary pressure; capillary trapping; hysteresis; residual saturation; saturation

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURE-SATURATION RELATIONSHIP; CAPILLARY TRAPPING; CONNECTIVITY FUNCTION; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; DRAINAGE AND WETTING; PORE-SCALE SIMULATION; RESIDUAL SATURATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; HYSTERESIS LOOPS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); WETTING;

HYSTERESIS;

CAPILLARITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; HYSTERESIS; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION;

EID: 84896722930     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014280     Document Type: Article

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