Mechanistic modeling of fingering, nonmonotonicity, fragmentation, and pulsation within gravity/buoyant destabilized two-phase/unsaturated flow

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Glass, Robert J ^a   Yarrington, Lane ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fingering; Fractures; Instability; Modified invasion percolation; Preferential flow; Pulsation

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FRACTURE; GRAVITATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); WETTING;

ROUGH-WALLED FRACTURE; UNSATURATED FLOW;

FLOW OF WATER;

FINGERING; FLOW MODELING; PERCOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; UNSATURATED FLOW;

FINGERING; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURE FLOW; PERCOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 1542441597     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001542     Document Type: Article

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