Natural convection of compressible and incompressible gases in undeformable porous media under cold climate conditions

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 435-445

  Lebeau, Marc ^a   Konrad, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compressible; Incompressible; Natural convection; Numerical modeling; Phase change; Porous media

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; COOLING; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MASS TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THERMOANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COMPRESSIBLE; INCOMPRESSIBLE; NUMERICAL MODELING; PHASE CHANGE; POROUS MEDIA;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHOD; GAS FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MASS TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 60549088722     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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