Finite Element Modelling of Three-Dimensional Steady-State Convection and Lead/Zinc Mineralization in Fluid-Saturated Rocks

Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-89

  Zhao, Chongbin ^a,b   Hobbs, B E ^a   Muhlhaus H B ^a   Ord, A ^a   Lin, Ge ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

chemical reaction in porous materials; Finite element analysis; flow through porous materials; minerals occurrences and deposits; natural convection; reactive flows

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEPOSITS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LEAD DEPOSITS; MINERALOGY; MIXING; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORE DEPOSITS; ORES; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

DISSOLUTION PATTERNS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; FLOWTHROUGH; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PORE FLUID FLOW; REACTIVE FLOW; REACTIVE SULFIDES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 22944488837     PISSN: 14727978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2003-3106     Document Type: Article

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