Effect of vertical heterogeneity on long-term migration of CO2 in saline formations

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-47

  Green, Christopher P ^a   Ennis King, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Convection; Saline aquifer; Upscaling; Vertical permeability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BREAKTHROUGH TIME; FREE-GAS PHASE; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; IMPERMEABLE BARRIERS; INJECTION RATES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ONSET-TIME; PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; SALINE AQUIFERS; SALINE FORMATION; SIMPLE MODEL; TWO-DIMENSION; UPSCALING; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION;

CAPILLARITY;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; AQUIFER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONVECTION; FLOW MODELING; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; UPSCALING;

EID: 76749171093     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9498-7     Document Type: Article

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