A fully-coupled flow-reactive-transport formulation based on element conservation, with application to CO 2 storage simulations

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-61

  Fan, Yaqing ^a,b   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

CO 2 mineralization; Cubic equation of state; Element balance; Fully coupled; Geochemistry; Reactive transport

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC REDUCTIONS; COMPOSITIONAL MODELING; COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR; CUBIC EQUATION OF STATE; CUBIC EQUATIONS OF STATE; DISCRETE EQUATIONS; ELEMENT-BASED FORMULATION; FULLY-COUPLED; GEOCHEMICAL REACTION; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GROUNDWATER MODELING; MULTICOMPONENT TRANSPORT; NONLINEAR COUPLING; OIL RESERVOIR SIMULATION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SCHUR COMPLEMENT; SOLUTION STRATEGY;

ALGEBRA; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; JACOBIAN MATRICES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EQUATION OF STATE; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW MODELING; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

EID: 84859936303     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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