Simulation of Dynamic Two-Phase Flow During Multistep Air Sparging

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 173-192

  Gao, Shengyan ^a,b   Meegoda, Jay N ^a,b   Hu, Liming ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sparging; Capillary pressure saturation; Dynamic two phase flow; Pore network model; Relative permeability saturation

Indexed keywords

AIR INJECTION; AIR SPARGING; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CAPILLARY PRESSURE-SATURATION; DURATION TIME; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; FLOW PROPERTIES; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; MATRIC POTENTIAL; MICRO-SCALES; MULTI-STEP; PORE NETWORKS; PORE SCALE; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; PRESSURIZED AIR; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY-SATURATION; REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES; RETAINED WATER; RULE BASED; TRANSIENT FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW MODEL; VOID STRUCTURES; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER SATURATIONS;

AIR; AIR PERMEABILITY; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

WATER INJECTION;

AIR SPARGING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID INJECTION; GROUNDWATER; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; SOIL REMEDIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84870573367     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-0081-2     Document Type: Article

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