Determination of spatially-resolved porosity, tracer distributions and diffusion coefficients in porous media using MRI measurements and numerical simulations

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 47-56

  Marica, Florea ^a   Jofré, Sergio Andrés Bea ^b   Mayer, K Ulrich ^b   Balcom, Bruce J ^a   Al, Tom A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Density driven advection; Diffusion; Heterogeneous; Homogeneous; Porous media; SPRITE MRI; Transport modeling

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; CONTAMINANT MIGRATION; COUPLED PROCESS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSION EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; FICK'S SECOND LAW; FICKIAN DIFFUSION; FLUID DENSITIES; GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; HETEROGENEOUS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HOMOGENEOUS; MULTICOMPONENTS; PORE FLUIDS; PORE WATERS; POROSITY MEASUREMENT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT CODES; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SPRITE MRI; THREE DIMENSIONS; TRACER CONCENTRATION; TRANSPORT MODELING; VARIABLE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT;

ADVECTION; CALCIUM SILICATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; EXPERIMENTS; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; SILICATES; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

DEUTERIUM OXIDE; TRACER; WATER;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SANDSTONE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACER;

ADVECTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATERIAL STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROCK; SANDSTONE; SOLUTE; SPRIT NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WATER TRANSPORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 80052827995     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: 18736009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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