Simulations of long-column flow experiments related to geologic carbon sequestration: Effects of outer wall boundary condition on upward flow and formation of liquid CO2

Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 279-303

  Oldenburg, Curtis M ^a   Doughty, Christine ^a   Peters, Catherine A ^b   Dobson, Patrick F ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ECO2M; expansion cooling; long column flow experiments; TOUGH2

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARBON; EXPANSION; LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; ECO2M; EXPANSION COOLING; GEOLOGIC CARBON SEQUESTRATIONS; LONG COLUMN; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THREE-PHASE RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; TOUGH2;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84865772260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21523878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ghg.1294     Document Type: Article

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