On spurious water flow during numerical simulation of steam injection into water-saturated soil

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 297-318

  Gudbjerg, J ^a   Trotschler O ^b   Farber A ^b   Sonnenborg, T O ^a   Jensen, K H ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Numerical modeling; Sandbox models; Spurious solutions; Steam injection

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION; SMEARING ZONES; SPURIOUS WATER; STEAM INJECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; REMEDIATION; WATER;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; REMEDIATION; SATURATED MEDIUM; STEAM INJECTION;

ARTICLE; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WATER FLOW; WATER VAPOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STEAM; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 10944231288     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2004.07.003     Document Type: Article

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