Heat and brine transport in porous media: The Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation revisited

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 355-373

  Landman, Anke Jannie ^a   Schotting, Ruud J ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brine transport; Density dependent flow; Heat transfer; Oberbeck Boussinesq approximation; Porous media; Similarity transformations; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRINES; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HEAT TRANSFER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

DARCY'S LAW; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; OBERBECK-BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRINES; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); HEAT TRANSFER; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; BRINE; DARCY LAW; DENSITY; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; DISCHARGE; HEAT TRANSFER; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 34748827776     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-007-9104-9     Document Type: Article

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