The instability of a vaporization front in hot porous rock

Nature

Volumn 367, Issue 6462, 1994, Pages 450-453

  Fitzgerald, Shaun D ^a   Woods, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT DRY ROCK SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VAPORIZATION; WATER;

FINGERING INSTABILITY; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY PRODUCTION; GEOTHERMAL POWER SYSTEMS; HOT POROUS ROCK; INJECTED WATER VAPORIZATION; LIQUID-VAPOR INTERFACES; OPTIMAL WATER INJECTION RATE;

GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS;

FINGERING INSTABILITY; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; HOT POROUS ROCK; LIQUID/VAPOUR INTERFACE; VAPORIZATION;

EID: 0028762454     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/367450a0     Document Type: Article

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