An experimental study of the effects of density and viscosity contrasts on macrodispersion in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Kretz, V ^a,b   Berest, P ^a   Hulin, J P ^a   Salin, D ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Buoyancy; Dispersion; Heterogeneities; Instability; Miscible

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HYDRAULIC MODELS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUBILITY; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; SYSTEM STABILITY; VISCOSITY;

DISPERSIVITIES;

DISPERSIONS;

DENSITY; DISPERSION; FLOW MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; VISCOSITY;

EID: 17944390243     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001WR001244     Document Type: Article

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