Convective dissolution of carbon dioxide in saline aquifers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Neufeld, Jerome A ^a   Hesse, Marc A ^b   Riaz, Amir ^c   Hallworth, Mark A ^a   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^d   Huppert, Herbert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEOLOGY; NETWORK SECURITY; OPTICAL GLASS; POROUS MATERIALS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; CONVECTIVE FLUX; DISSOLUTION RATES; DOWN-WELLING; FLUID SYSTEMS; HIGH-RAYLEIGH-NUMBER CONVECTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATERAL DIFFUSION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; PHYSICAL PICTURES; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SALINE AQUIFERS; STABLE STRATIFICATION; STORAGE SECURITY;

DISSOLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISSOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SALINE INTRUSION; STRATIFICATION; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 78649647299     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044728     Document Type: Article

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