Residual Trapping Beneath Impermeable Barriers During Buoyant Migration of CO2

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 505-524

  Green, Christopher P ^a   Ennis King, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b University of Melbourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

Buoyant migration; Residual trapping; Saline aquifer

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ASPECT RATIO; BUOYANCY; NETWORK SECURITY;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BUOYANT MIGRATION; GEOLOGICAL FORMATION; IMPERMEABLE BARRIERS; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; RESIDUAL TRAPPING; SALINE AQUIFERS; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AQUIFER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RESERVOIR; TRAPPING;

EID: 84878783117     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-013-0156-8     Document Type: Article

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