Interphase mass transfer in variable aperture fractures: Controlling parameters and proposed constitutive relationships

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Detwiler, Russell L ^a   Rajaram, Harihar ^b   Glass, Robert J ^c  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCE; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DEEP SALINE AQUIFERS; DENSE NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; DEPTH-AVERAGED MODELS; DISCRETE REGIONS; FLOWING GAS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; INTER-PHASE MASS TRANSFER; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; MASS TRANSFER MODELS; MASS TRANSFER RATE; MATRIX; NATURAL-GAS PRODUCTION; NONLINEAR DEPENDENCE; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; PHASE SATURATIONS; PHYSICALLY BASED; SYSTEMATIC SIMULATION; VARIABLE APERTURE FRACTURES; VISCOUS FORCES;

AQUIFERS; DISSOLUTION; FRACTURE; GAS INDUSTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; SALINE WATER; SIMULATORS; SOLVENTS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEEP SEA; DISSOLUTION; EVAPORATION; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURE APERTURE; GAS FLOW; GAS PRODUCTION; GEOMETRY; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; IMMOBILIZATION; LINEARITY; MASS TRANSFER; NATURAL GAS; NONLINEARITY; PERCOLATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; THRESHOLD;

EID: 70349776221     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007009     Document Type: Article

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