Gas exsolution and flow during supersaturated water injection in porous media: I. Pore network modeling

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-14

  Zhao, Weishu ^a   Ioannidis, Marios A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bubble; Degassing; Ebullition; Mass transfer; Mobilization; Percolation

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; BUBBLE; BUOYANCY FORCES; CAPILLARY INSTABILITY; CONVECTIVE DIFFUSION; EBULLITION; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXSOLUTION; GAS CLUSTERS; GAS SATURATIONS; GAS-PHASE CLUSTERS; GASPHASE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; IN-SITU; MACROSCOPIC MASS; MOBILE GAS; MOBILIZATION; PERCOLATION; PHYSICAL ASPECTS; PORE-NETWORK MODELING; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; POROUS MEDIA; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; SUBSURFACE PRESSURE;

BUOYANCY; COALESCENCE; DEGASSING; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLVENTS; VAPORS; WATER INJECTION;

MASS TRANSFER;

DEGASSING; DISPLACEMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLUID FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MASS TRANSFER; MOBILIZATION; PERCOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 78650174227     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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