Miscible Thermo-Viscous Fingering Instability in Porous Media. Part 2: Numerical Simulations

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 845-861

  Islam, M N ^a   Azaiez, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hartley transform; Nonlinear simulations; Porous media; Thermo viscous fingering

Indexed keywords

CONTACT AREAS; FLUID FRONTS; HARTLEY TRANSFORM; INITIAL VALUES; ISO SURFACE; LEWIS NUMBERS; MOBILITY RATIOS; MODEL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POROUS MEDIA; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; QUALITATIVE OBSERVATIONS; QUASI STEADY STATE APPROXIMATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; STABILIZING EFFECTS; STREAMFUNCTION FORMULATION; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; THERMAL FRONTS; THERMAL LAG; THERMAL MOBILITY; TIME EVOLUTIONS; VISCOUS FINGERING;

LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; SPECTROSCOPY; VORTICITY;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

FINGERING; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; TRANSFORM; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77956010754     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9542-7     Document Type: Article

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