Reactive transport upscaling at the Darcy scale: A new flow rate based approach raises the unsolved issue of porosity upscaling

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1239-1248

  Nos, J ^a,b   Lagneau, V ^b   Langlais, V ^a  

^a AREVA NP   (France)

^b CENTRE DE GÉOSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Darcy scale; Permeability upscaling; Porosity upscaling; Reactive transport

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATE METHOD; COARSE GRID; CPU TIME; DARCY SCALE; EQUIVALENCE CRITERIA; EXACT RESULTS; FINE GRIDS; FINITE VOLUME APPROACH; FLOW CALCULATIONS; HIGH HETEROGENEITY; PARTICULAR CONDITION; RATE-BASED APPROACH; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; RENORMALIZATION; RESEARCH FIELDS; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLUTION MIXING; STATIONARY FLOW; TRANSIENT FLOW; UPSCALING; UPSCALING METHODS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MODELS; POROSITY;

FLOW RATE;

DARCY LAW; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; UPSCALING;

EID: 80052869905     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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