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Structure of a saturation jump in countercurrent capillary imbibition

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Consideration has been given to the structure of a saturation jump in the one-dimensional countercurrent capillary imbibition of a wetting phase (water) into a semiinfinite porous medium. An equation having a geometric interpretation has been derived, and boundary conditions have been determined for a stabilized zone due to the nonequilibrium of the phase distribution. Calculation of the saturation-jump and phase-pressure profiles has been performed for a sandstone sample.

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  1. Federal State Unitary Enterprise ˈˈAll-Russia Research Institute of Oil Geologyˈˈ, 36 Éntuziastov Highway, Moscow, 105118, Russia

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 84, No. 5, pp. 927–932, September–October, 2011.

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Lobanov, E.M. Structure of a saturation jump in countercurrent capillary imbibition. J Eng Phys Thermophy 84, 997–1002 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-011-0559-8

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