Dissolution-driven convection in a Hele-Shaw cell

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Slim, Anja C ^a,c   Bandi, M M ^a,d   Miller, Joel C ^b,e   Mahadevan, L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLUTION; MERGING;

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW TRANSITIONS; GLOBAL QUANTITIES; HELE-SHAW CELLS; LAYER THICKNESS; LINEAR GROWTH; LOCAL MAXIMUM; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REINITIATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TRANSMITTED LIGHT INTENSITY;

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS;

EID: 84874227962     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4790511     Document Type: Article

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