Convective mixing in formations with horizontal barriers

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 499-510

  Elenius, Maria T ^a   Gasda, Sarah E ^a  

^a Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

Convective mixing; Effective permeability; Geological CO2 storage; Heterogeneity; Numerical simulation; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE MIXING; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; SEMI-INFINITE DOMAINS; UPSCALING; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; POROUS MATERIALS;

MIXING;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONVECTION; FLOW STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; UPSCALING;

EID: 84888846427     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.10.010     Document Type: Article

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