From connected pathway flow to ganglion dynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3888-3894

  Rucker M ^a,b   Berg, S ^a   Armstrong, R T ^c   Georgiadis, A ^a   Ott, H ^a   Schwing, A ^a   Neiteler, R ^a   Brussee, N ^a   Makurat, A ^a   Leu, L ^a,b   Wolf, M ^b   Khan, F ^b   Enzmann, F ^b   Kersten, M ^b  

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

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

flow regime; ganglion dynamics; imbibition; micro CT; multiphase flow; tomography

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MASS TRANSFER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAKUP AND COALESCENCES; DYNAMIC TRANSIENTS; FLOW REGIMES; GANGLION DYNAMICS; IMBIBITION; MICRO CT; PHASE CONNECTIVITIES; X-RAY COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COALESCENCE; DARCY LAW; IMBIBITION; MASS TRANSFER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POREWATER; SANDSTONE; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84931565706     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064007     Document Type: Article

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