Upscaling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media From Pore to Core and Beyond /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Das, D.B (Editor), Hassanizadeh, S.M (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Hydrology.; Hydrogeology.; Computer mathematics.; Fluid mechanics.; Earth Sciences.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Earth Sciences, general.

This book provides concise, up-to-date and easy-to-follow information on certain aspects of an ever important research area: multiphase flow in porous media. This flow type is of great significance in many petroleum and environmental engineering problems, such as in secondary and tertiary oil recove...

Table of Contents:

• Pore Scale Network Modelling
• Bundle-of-Tubes Model for Calculating Dynamic Effects in the Capillary-Pressure-Saturation Relationship
• Predictive Pore-Scale Modeling of Single and Multiphase Flow
• Digitally Reconstructed Porous Media: Transport and Sorption Properties
• Pore-Network Modeling of Isothermal Drying in Porous Media
• Phenomenological Meniscus Model for Two-Phase Flows in Porous Media
• Editorial
• Dynamic Effects and Continuum-Scale Modelling
• Macro-Scale Dynamic Effects in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Porous Media
• Dynamic Capillary Pressure Mechanism for Instability in Gravity-Driven Flows; Review and Extension to Very Dry Conditions
• Analytic Analysis for Oil Recovery During Counter-Current Imbibition in Strongly Water-Wet Systems
• Multi-Stage Upscaling: Selection of Suitable Methods
• Dynamic Effects in Multiphase Flow: A Pore-scale Network Approach
• Upscaling of Two-Phase Flow Processes in Porous Media.