A Class of Physically Stable Non-linear Models of Flow Through Anisotropic Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 409-429

  Patacchini, Leonardo ^a   de Loubens, Romain ^a  

^a TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Non Darcy; Non Newtonian; Stability

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HOLE MOBILITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPIC POROUS MEDIA; COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; DISSIPATION POTENTIAL; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; NON-DARCY; NON-NEWTONIAN; PERMEABILITY TENSORS; SUPERFICIAL VELOCITY;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; DARCY LAW; FLUID FLOW; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 84874713697     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-013-0132-3     Document Type: Article

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