Probability Density Function Modeling of Multi-Phase Flow in Porous Media with Density-Driven Gravity Currents

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 603-623

  Tyagi, Manav ^a   Jenny, Patrick ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CO2 storage; Dissolution; Multi phase flow; PDF modeling; Stochastic particle method

Indexed keywords

BRINE PHASE; CO2 STORAGE; CORRELATION LENGTH SCALE; COUNTER-CURRENT FLOW; DARCY MODEL; EULERIAN EQUATIONS; FLOW PHYSICS; FLOW STATISTICS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; INTERFACIAL MASS TRANSFER; LAGRANGIAN EVOLUTION; MASS DENSITIES; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; MICRO-SCALES; MODELING APPROACH; MOMENT EQUATIONS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM DISSOLUTION; PDF-MODELING; POROUS MEDIA; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); PROBABILITY SPACES; RANDOM FLOWS; SINGLE COMPONENTS; STOCHASTIC MOMENTS; STOCHASTIC PARTICLE METHODS; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

AQUIFERS; DISSOLUTION; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DARCY LAW; DISSOLUTION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MASS TRANSFER; MODELING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLUBILITY; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 79952737462     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9704-7     Document Type: Article

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