Film Flow Dominated Simultaneous Flow of Two Viscous Incompressible Fluids Through a Porous Medium

We present an experimental study of two-phase flow in a quasi-two-dimensional porous medium. The two phases, a water-glycerol solution and a commercial food grade rapeseed/canola oil, having an oil to water-glycerol viscosity ratio of 1.3, are injected simultaneously into a Hele-Shaw cell with a mon...

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Main Authors: Olav eAursjø, Marion eErpelding, Ken Tore Tallakstad, Eirik G. Flekkøy, Alex eHansen, Knut Jørgen eMåløy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphy.2014.00063/full