Numerical modeling of coupled fluid flow and thermal and reactive biogeochemical transport in porous and fractured media

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-170

  Yeh, Gour Tsyh ^a   Fang, Yilin ^b   Zhang, Fan ^c   Sun, Jiangtao ^d   Li, Yuan ^e   Li, Ming Hsu ^f   Siegel, Malcolm D ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Engineering and Applied Science Inc   (United States)

^e Ayres Associates   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical modeling; Fluid flow; HYDROGEOCHEM; Reaction network; Reactive transport; Thermal transport

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURED MEDIUM; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; METAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REMEDIATION;

EID: 77952882944     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-009-9140-3     Document Type: Article

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