Thermal inertia and reversing buoyancy in flow in porous media

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Menand, Thierry ^a   Raw, Alan ^a   Woods, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FLOW PATTERNS; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCK MECHANICS; THERMAL EFFECTS; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LABORATORIES; OIL WELL FLOODING; ROCKS;

THERMAL INERTIA; DENSITY DIFFERENCE; DIFFERENT DENSITIES; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; FORMATION FLUIDS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MINERAL REACTIONS; SWEEP EFFICIENCY;

GEOPHYSICS; MINERALS;

BUOYANCY; DENSITY; FLUID FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BUOYANCY; DENSITY; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FLUID FLOW; LABORATORY METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 0042691716     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016294     Document Type: Article

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