Model for the gas evolution in a porous medium driven by solute diffusion

AIChE Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2690-2710

  Tsimpanogiannis, Ioannis N ^a   Yortsos, Yannis C ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; NUCLEATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SUPERSATURATION;

THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM;

DIFFUSION;

DIFFUSION; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW FLUID;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; GAS; GAS FLOW; HYDROPHOBICITY; POROSITY; SOLUTE; THERMODYNAMICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0036877343     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690481126     Document Type: Article

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