Visual study of the effect of viscosity ratio, flow rate and porous medium topology on two-phase relative permeabilities

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2009, CIPC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ortiz Arango, J D ^a   Kantzas, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY TUBES; FLOW RATE; GASOLINE; POLYMER BLENDS; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TOPOLOGY; VISCOSITY; WETTING;

DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; GLASS MICROMODELS; INJECTION FLOW RATE; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; LUBRICATION EFFECT; MULTIPHASE FLOW IN POROUS MEDIAS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 85086057359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2009-168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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