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Author:

Purswani, Prakash

Title:

Relative Permeability Equation-of-State: The Role of Phase Connectivity, Wettability, and Capillary Number

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Relative permeability
Multiphase transport
Two-phase flow
Porous medium
Wettability
Capillary trapping
Equation-of-state
Pore structure
Pore-network modeling
Phase connectivity
Euler characteristic
Capillary number
Capillary pressure
Fluid-fluid interfacial area
Hysteresis

File:

Download Purswani_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amin Mehrabian, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Special Member
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Outside Member
Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair