Two-phase gravity currents in porous media

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 678, Issue , 2011, Pages 248-270

  Golding, Madeleine J ^a   Neufeld, Jerome A ^a   Hesse, Marc A ^a   Huppert, Herbert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity currents; multiphase flow; porous media

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BUOYANCY; CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOLOGY; GRAVITY WAVES; GROUNDWATER; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; GRAVITY CURRENTS; GROUND-WATER HYDROLOGY; IMPERMEABLE BOUNDARY; MULTIPHASE FLOW IN POROUS MEDIAS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SATURATION DEPENDENTS; SATURATION DISTRIBUTION;

GRAVITATION;

BUOYANCY; CAPILLARY FRINGE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GRAVITY FLOW; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 79960124441     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.110     Document Type: Article

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