Viscous and gravitational contributions to mixing during vertical brine transport in water-saturated porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Flowers, Tracey C ^a,b   Hunt, James R ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINES; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

MOBILITY RATIO; VISCOUS FINGERING; VISCOUS FORCES;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

BRINES; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

BRINE; FLUID FLOW; GRAVITY FLOW; GROUNDWATER; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM; VERTICAL MIXING; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 33847622006     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004773     Document Type: Article

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