Effects of mineral dissolution ratios on chemical-dissolution front instability in fluid-saturated porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 317-335

  Zhao, Chongbin ^a   Hobbs, B E ^b   Ord, A ^b   Peng, Shenglin ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemical dissolution; Computational simulation; Front instability; Mineral dissolution ratio; Porous media; Theoretical solution

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DISSOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; MINERAL DISSOLUTION; POROUS MEDIA; THEORETICAL SOLUTIONS;

FLUIDS; MINERALS; MORPHOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; SILICATE MINERALS; STABILITY;

DISSOLUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISSOLUTION; FLUID FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77951498045     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9427-9     Document Type: Article

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