Modeling of heat and mass transfer in a fractured porous medium

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 279-292

  Saghir, M Z ^a   Nejad, M ^a   Vaziri, H H ^b   Islam, M R ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brinkman model; Double diffusion; Finite element; Fractured reservoir; Navier Stokes; Porous matrix; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044528936     PISSN: 10618562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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