A stochastic model for air injection into saturated porous media

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1180-1186

  Stauffer, Fritz ^a   Kong, Xiang Zhao ^a   Kinzelbach, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air injection; Macro scale; Multiphase flow; Numerical modelling; Porous media; Subscale

Indexed keywords

AIR INJECTION; MACRO-SCALE; NUMERICAL MODELLING; POROUS MEDIA; SUBSCALE;

AIR; AQUIFERS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GLASS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); POROUS MATERIALS; SOLVENTS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; VIDEO CAMERAS; WATER INJECTION;

AIR FILTERS;

AIRFLOW; AQUIFER; BIOFILTRATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; GRANULAR MEDIUM; IMMISCIBILITY; LABORATORY METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM; STOCHASTICITY; TWO PHASE FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 67650450197     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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