Various capillary pressure approaches such as the Purcell, Burdine, Corey, and Brooks-Corey methods were used to calculate steam-water relative permeabilities using the measured data of steamwater capillary pressure in both drainage and imbibition processes. The calculated results were compared to the experimental data of steam-water relative permeability measured in Berea sandstone. The steam-...

[1] Relative permeabilities are the key descriptors in classical formulations of multiphase flow in porous media. Experimental evidence and an analysis of pore-scale physics demonstrate conclusively that relative permeabilities are not single functions of fluid saturations and that they display strong hysteresis effects. In this paper, we evaluate the relevance of relative permeability hysteres...

This paper describes a determination of critical gas saturations and relative permeabilities relevant to the depressurisation of two North Sea fields. A series of reservoir condition coreflood experiments and associated numerical simulations is described. Four experiments were conducted with aged cores and fluids and each comprised of a waterflood, followed by depressurisation at different rate...

A set of relative permeability relations for simultaneous ow of steam and water in porous media have been derived from experiments conducted under conditions that eliminate most errors associated with saturation and pressure measurements. These relations show that the relative permeability for steam phase in porous media varies linearly with saturation. The liquid phase, however shows a variati...

A short review of modern techniques for broadband microwave measuring complex permittivity and permeability of materials at broadband microwave frequencies has been presented. Classification of type of the measurement methods to extract the complex permittivity and permeability of bulk materials has been done in this paper. Mathematical models of all the above-mentioned measurement types of met...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to correlate the degree of contrast enhancement on dynamic contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRI and the relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) values on T2*-weighted MRI in patients with high-grade brain neoplasms. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Ten patients with biopsy-proven high-grade gliomas underwent dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI using T1-weighted fast spoiled g...

Two-phase flow through fractured media is important in geothermal, nuclear, and petroleum applications. However, the knowledge of the relationship between flow behavior and relative permeabilities is limited. In this research, an experimental apparatus was built to capture the unstable nature of the two-phase flow in a smooth-walled fracture and display the flow structures under different flow ...