The effects of permeability variations on flow in porous media

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1985-September, Issue , 1985, Pages

  Giordano, R M ^a   Salter, S J ^a   Mohanty, K K ^a  

^a ARCO Resources Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERS; GASOLINE; POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATORS; DISPLACEMENT EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE PERMEABILITY;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 85037420937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 26386712     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/14365-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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