Slow gas expansion in saturated natural porous media by gas injection and partitioning with non-aqueous phase liquids

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-40

  Mumford, Kevin G ^a   Dickson, Sarah E ^a   Smith, James E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buoyancy forces; Capillary forces; Gas injection; NAPL dissolution; Spontaneous gas expansion; Unstable gas flow

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; DISSOLUTION; EXPANSION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF GASES; GAS DYNAMICS; POROUS MATERIALS;

BUOYANCY FORCES; CAPILLARY FORCES; GAS INJECTION; NAPL DISSOLUTION; SPONTANEOUS GAS EXPANSION; UNSTABLE GAS FLOW;

GASES;

BUOYANCY; COALESCENCE; GAS FLOW; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; PARTITIONING; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 57349143295     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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