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Transport in Porous Media, Vol.28, No.2, 221-231, 1997
An upgraded viscous coupling measurement methodology
Suggestions are presented in this Note about simple but usually ignored ways to enhance the reliability and utility of the otherwise interesting procedures recently studied (e.g. by Zarcone and Lenormand and independently by Dullien and Dong) for obtaining needed information about the relative importance of the role played by viscous coupling phenomena during multiphase flow processes that occur in and through the interstices of natural porous media systems. This is done now because of the persistence of so many perplexing questions and contradicting opinions about what has been a controversial subject ever since the appearance of Yuster's watershed paper in 1951. Here, the belief herd by at least a few of the currently publishing authorities is embraced, namely that viscous coupling issues will never be fully settled until the indications of the underlying theoretical interpretations can be fully confirmed by laboratory observations, hence a disclosure of even modest ways to achieve data acquisition enhancements is the motivation for what is written in what follows.