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Two-Phase Flow in Double Porosity Media

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Macroscale Models of Flow Through Highly Heterogeneous Porous Media

Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media ((TATP,volume 16))

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Problem of upscaling two-phase flow through highly heterogeneous media deals with a more complex case of transport equations, characterized by nonlinearity and degeneration of relative permeabilities, as well as by specific capillary phenomena which determine discontinuous behavior of the saturation, that has not anything similar in linear case.

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Panfilov, M. (2000). Two-Phase Flow in Double Porosity Media. In: Macroscale Models of Flow Through Highly Heterogeneous Porous Media. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9582-7_4

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