Effective two-phase flow in heterogeneous media under temporal pressure fluctuations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Bolster, Diogo ^a   Dentz, Marco ^a   Carrera, Jesus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; COMBINED EFFECT; DISPERSIVE FLUXES; ENTRAPMENT EFFICIENCY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; NONLOCAL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL FLUCTUATIONS; STABLE FORM; STOCHASTIC MODELING; SURFACE AREA; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION; THEORETICAL BASIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLUTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TWO PHASE FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISPERSIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SATURATION; STOCHASTICITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 67650329849     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007460     Document Type: Article

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