Multiblock Pore-Scale Modeling and Upscaling of Reactive Transport: Application to Carbon Sequestration

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-326

  Mehmani, Y ^a   Sun, T ^a   Balhoff, M T ^a   Eichhubl, P ^b   Bryant, S ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Mortar coupling; Multiscale modeling; Pore scale modeling; Reactant transport; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; MORTAR COUPLING; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; PORE-SCALE MODELING; REACTANT TRANSPORT; UPSCALING;

AQUIFERS; HYDROGEOLOGY; REACTION RATES;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELING; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; UPSCALING;

EID: 84867096427     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-0044-7     Document Type: Article

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