A workflow for handling heterogeneous 3D models with the TOUGH2 family of codes: Applications to numerical modeling of CO2 geological storage

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 610-620

  Audigane, Pascal ^a   Chiaberge, Christophe ^a   Mathurin, Frédéric ^a   Lions, Julie ^a   Picot Colbeaux, Géraldine ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

3D visualization; CO2 geological storage; Multiphase flow; Pre and post processing; Reactive transport modeling; TOUGH2

Indexed keywords

3D VISUALIZATION; GEOLOGICAL STORAGE; PRE AND POST PROCESSING; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; TOUGH2;

ABANDONED WELLS; AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GAS INDUSTRY; GASES; METHANE; MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EQUATION OF STATE; GEOMETRY; METHANE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNDERGROUND STORAGE; VISUALIZATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; SLEIPNER FIELD;

EID: 79952627012     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.11.020     Document Type: Article

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