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Comparisons Of Point And Average Capillary Pressure - Saturation Functions For Porous Media, Samuel Clark Cropper
Comparisons Of Point And Average Capillary Pressure - Saturation Functions For Porous Media, Samuel Clark Cropper
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The relationship between the volume of water occupying pores in soil or rock and its energy state is called the capillary pressure–saturation function. This is an important hydrogeologic property needed for modeling multiphase flow and transport. Standard methods used to determine capillary pressure–saturation behavior produce volume averaged functions rather than point functions. Average functions can produce erroneous simulations in flow models. Analytical expressions permit extraction of point functions from average functions, and predictions of average functions from point function parameters. These concepts are discussed in Chapter I.
Chapter II compares average and point functions from centrifugation of Berea sandstone, glass …