Theoretical development of the brooks-corey capillary pressure model from fractal modeling of porous media

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2004-April, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Li, Kewen ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES; FRACTAL MODEL; MERCURY INTRUSION; PORE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION INDEX; ROCK SAMPLE; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; TWO PARAMETER;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 85043574979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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