Convective shutdown in a porous medium at high Rayleigh number

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 719, Issue , 2013, Pages 551-586

  Hewitt, Duncan R ^a   Neufeld, Jerome A ^a,b,c   Lister, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

convection; convection in porous media; porous media

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CYTOLOGY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; HEAT CONVECTION; INTERFACE STATES; POROUS MATERIALS; REACTOR SHUTDOWNS;

COMPLEX PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; CONVECTION IN POROUS MEDIAS; DYNAMICAL STRUCTURE; EQUATION OF STATE; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; INTERFACIAL DEFORMATIONS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; POWER LAW EQUATION;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONVECTION; DISSOLUTION; EQUATION OF STATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84874224557     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.23     Document Type: Article

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