Direct gas injection into saturated glass beads: Transition from incoherent to coherent gas flow pattern

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Geistlinger, Helmut ^a   Krauss, Gunnar ^a   Lazik, Detlef ^a   Luckner, Ludwig ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b Dresden Centre of Groundwater Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CAPILLARY FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; FRICTION; GRAVITATION; STEADY FLOW;

CORE ANNULUS FLOW; FLOW RATE; GAS FLOW; HAGEN POISEUILLE FLOW;

GAS DYNAMICS;

BUOYANCY; CAPILLARY FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; FRICTION; GAS DYNAMICS; GRAVITATION; STEADY FLOW;

BUOYANCY; FLUID FLOW; FRICTION; GAS; NUMERICAL METHOD; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 33748084729     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004451     Document Type: Article

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