Spreading and convective dissolution of carbon dioxide in vertically confined, horizontal aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  MacMinn, Christopher W ^a,b   Neufeld, Jerome A ^c,d   Hesse, Marc A ^e   Huppert, Herbert E ^d,f  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT WATERS; BUOYANT PLUME; FINITE THICKNESS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LEADING EDGE; LONG-TERM STORAGE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; SALINE AQUIFERS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

AQUIFERS; BUOYANCY; DISSOLUTION; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; METHANOL; MIXTURES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATER INJECTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ALCOHOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUIFER; BIOACCUMULATION; BUOYANCY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DISSOLUTION; PLUME; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RESERVOIR; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84869470850     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012286     Document Type: Article

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