Hydrodynamic dispersion in steady buoyancy-driven geological flows

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Meybodi, H Emami ^a   Hassanzadeh, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BUOYANCY DRIVEN FLOWS; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; CONVECTIVE MIXING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DEVELOPED MODEL; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; FLOW DISPERSIONS; FLUID-SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSIONS; MIXING MODELS; NONLINEAR MIXING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PASSIVE TRACERS; POROUS LAYERS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RAYLEIGH; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; STEADY VELOCITY FIELD; STEADY-STATE VELOCITY; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; SHEAR FLOW; VELOCITY;

DISPERSIONS;

BUOYANCY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUID; GEOPHYSICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RESOLUTION; SHEAR FLOW; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VELOCITY;

EID: 83455205908     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010949     Document Type: Article

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