ON THE CAPILLARY COUPLING BETWEEN 2 PHASES IN A DROPLET TRAIN MODEL

A droplet train model proposed by Foulser et al. (Transport in Porous Media 6 (1991), 223) is modified with addition of capillary resistance . It is shown that linear transport equations for this model can be re presented in the Onsager form, where the generalized thermodynamic for ces are pressure gradients of corresponding phases. In particular, the onset of capillary interactions give rise to the nonzero and equal cr oss term coefficients.