Effect of strong heterogeneity on the onset of convection in a porous medium: Importance of spatial dimensionality and geologic controls

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Simmons, Craig T ^a   Kuznetsov, A V ^b   Nield, D A ^c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D FLOW; COMPUTER PACKAGES; CONVECTION PROCESS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DARCY'S LAW; DENSITY GRADIENTS; GEOLOGIC CONTROL; GEOLOGIC MEDIA; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIUM; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LOG-NORMAL; ONSET OF CONVECTION; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SPATIAL DIMENSIONALITIES; SPATIAL FUNCTIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRONG HETEROGENEITIES; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS;

ANISOTROPY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

ANISOTROPY; CONVECTION; DARCY LAW; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77957724790     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008606     Document Type: Article

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