An optimal viscosity profile in enhanced oil recovery by polymer flooding

DOI10.1016/j.ijengsci.2004.07.008zbMath1211.86005OpenAlexW2153554662MaRDI QIDQ536303

Gelu I. Paşa, Prabir K. Daripa

Publication date: 17 May 2011

Published in: International Journal of Engineering Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijengsci.2004.07.008

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilitypolymer floodingenhanced oil recovery

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Potentials, prospecting (86A20) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

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