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Flow phenomena in porous media : fundamentals and applications in petroleum, water, and food production

Title
Flow phenomena in porous media : fundamentals and applications in petroleum, water, and food production / Robert A. Greenkorn.
Author
Greenkorn, Robert Albert, 1928-
Publication
New York : M. Dekker, ©1983.

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Description
ix, 550 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Energy, power, and environment ; 16
Uniform Title
Energy, power, and environment ; 16.
Subject
  • Porous materials > Fluid dynamics
  • Groundwater flow
  • Oil reservoir engineering
  • Soil moisture
  • Groundwater flow
  • Oil reservoir engineering
  • Porous materials > Fluid dynamics
  • Soil moisture
  • Poröser Stoff
  • Strömung
  • Poreuze media
  • Vloeistofmechanica
  • Petrologie
  • Voedselproductie
  • Waterhuishouding
  • Grondwater
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
DESCRIPTION OF POROUS MEDIA: Microscopic description -- A statistical model of a porous medium -- Mechanical properties -- Macroscopic description -- SINGLE-FLUID FLOW: Equations of change -- Porosity, permeability, tortuosity, and connectivity of nonideal media -- Steady flow: complex potentials -- Steady compressible flow -- Transient flow -- Inertial effects: wave propagation -- Non-Newtonian flow -- MULTIFLUID IMMISCIBLE FLOW: Equations of change -- Wettability, capillary pressure, relative tortuosity, and relative permeability of nonideal media -- Displacement in immiscible flow -- Moving boundaries: the Muskat model -- Unstable flow -- Transient flow -- Flow with phase change -- MULTIFLUID MISCIBLE FLOW: Equations of change -- Dispersion: dispersivity of nonideal media -- Steady flow displacements -- Unstable flow -- Transient flow -- Dispersion with adsorption -- PHENOMENOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR: Similarity, scaling, and physical models -- Analog models -- Numerical models -- APPLICATIONS IN PETROLEUM ENGINEERING: Reservoir description -- Well-test analysis -- Gas reservoirs -- Oil reservoirs -- Condensate reservoirs -- Secondary recovery -- Tertiary recovery -- APPLICATIONS IN GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY: Aquifers -- Aquifer properties from pumping tests -- Flow with phreatic surfaces -- Dispersion in aquifers -- APPLICATIONS IN SOILS SCIENCE: Unsaturated flow -- Nonproportional liquid flow -- Movement and adsorption of chemicals in soils.
ISBN
  • 0824718615
  • 9780824718619
LCCN
82022119
OCLC
  • ocm09018419
  • 9018419
  • SCSB-9142750
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library