Forward prediction of early‐time spontaneous imbibition of water in unsaturated rock fractures

Abstract Spontaneous imbibition is a capillary‐driven phenomenon in which a wetting fluid displaces a nonwetting fluid from voids without any increase in external pressure. This study compared forward predictions of early‐time displacement of air by water within Mode I fractures in 14 low‐porosity r...

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Main Authors: Edmund Perfect, Jared W. Brabazon, Christopher H. Gates
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Vadose Zone Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20056