Numerical simulation of gas flow through porous sandstone and its experimental validation

Fuel

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 547-554

  Perera, M S A ^a   Ranjith, P G ^a   Choi, S K ^b   Airey, D ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

COMET 3 simulator; Gas flow; Porous sandstone; Transition point; Triaxial test

Indexed keywords

COMET 3 SIMULATOR; GAS FLOW; POROUS SANDSTONE; TRANSITION POINT; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF GASES; FLUID DYNAMICS; GASES; LAMINAR FLOW; SANDSTONE; SIMULATORS; TESTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSITION FLOW; WATER INJECTION; WEATHERING;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 78649987698     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2010.09.029     Document Type: Article

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