Buoyant dispersal of CO2 during geological storage

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hesse, M A ^a   Woods, A W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b BP Institute for Multiphase Flow ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY DOMINATED FLOWS; CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; FLOW BARRIERS; FLUID VOLUMES; GEOLOGICAL STORAGE; HORIZONTAL INJECTION WELLS; IMPERMEABLE BARRIERS; MIGRATION PATH; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLUME SPREAD; POINT SOURCES; SEISMIC IMAGE; SHALE LAYERS; SMALL SCALE; SMALL-SCALE FLOWS; UPSCALING; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES; VERTICAL SEPARATION;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INJECTION (OIL WELLS);

SHALE;

BUOYANCY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EMISSION CONTROL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 75749083262     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041128     Document Type: Article

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