Two-phase, partially miscible flow and transport modeling in porous media; application to gas migration in a nuclear waste repository

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-42

  Bourgeat, Alain ^a   Jurak, Mladen ^b   Smaï, Farid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Modeling; Porous medium; Two phase flow; Underground nuclear waste management

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FLOW OF GASES; HYDROGEN; POROUS MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; TWO PHASE FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSIVITY; FLOW MODELING; GAS FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; TWO PHASE FLOW; UNDERGROUND STORAGE;

EID: 61549126938     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-008-9102-1     Document Type: Article

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