Non-isothermal, compressible gas flow for the simulation of an enhanced gas recovery application

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 236, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 4933-4943

  Bottcher N ^a   Singh, A K ^b   Kolditz, O ^a,b   Liedl, R ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide sequestration; Enhanced gas recovery; Equation of state; Finite element method; Numerical simulation; Real gas behavior

Indexed keywords

BALANCE EQUATIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION; COMPRESSIBLE GAS; DEPLETED RESERVOIRS; ENHANCED GAS RECOVERIES; EQUATION OF STATE; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; NON-LINEAR PDES; NONISOTHERMAL; OBJECT ORIENTED; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; REAL GAS; RESERVOIR PRESSURES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ISOTHERMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; RECOVERY; WATER INJECTION;

EQUATIONS OF STATE OF GASES;

EID: 84863987671     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2011.11.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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