Leakage from inclined porous reservoirs

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 673, Issue , 2011, Pages 395-405

  Zimoch, Pawel J ^a,b   Neufeld, Jerome A ^a   Vella, Dominic ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gravity currents; Hele Shaw flows

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS; GEOLOGICAL STORAGE; GRAVITY CURRENTS; HELE-SHAW FLOW; INJECTED FLUIDS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; POROUS RESERVOIRS; STEADY-STATE EFFICIENCY;

EFFICIENCY;

CAP ROCK; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GRAVITY FLOW; LEAKAGE; POROUS MEDIUM; RESERVOIR;

EID: 79956002794     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112011000723     Document Type: Article

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