Prediction of capillary pressure-saturation relationship for primary drainage in a 3D fibrous porous medium using volume-of-fluid method

DOI10.1016/j.euromechflu.2017.10.008zbMath1408.76507OpenAlexW2766498382MaRDI QIDQ1672460

Urmila Ghia, Aravind Kishore, Ken Comer, Nikhil Kumar Palakurthi, Santosh Konangi

Publication date: 10 September 2018

Published in: European Journal of Mechanics. B. Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2017.10.008

zbMATH Keywords

volume-of-fluid methodfibrous mediacapillary-pressure saturationfull-morphology methodmicroscale simulationquasi-static drainage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12)

Uses Software

• InterFOAM

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