A pore-throat model based on grain-size distribution to quantify gravity-dominated DNAPL instabilities in a water-saturated homogeneous porous medium;Modèle de réseau de pores et de capillaires, basé sur la courbe granulométrique pour la quantification des instabilités gravitaires du déplacement d'un DNAPL dans un milieu poreux homogène saturé en eau.

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 342, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 881-891

  Nsir, Khalifa ^a   Schäfer, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

DNAPL; Instabilities; Pore throat model; Porous media; Size distribution; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAIN SIZE; LABORATORY METHOD; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PORE PRESSURE; POROUS MEDIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 78650040374     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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