Pore-space alteration induced by brine acidification in subsurface geologic formations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 440-452

  Ovaysi, Saeed ^a   Piri, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon sequestration; pore scale modeling; reactive transport

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; MICROTOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MOVING PARTICLE SEMI-IMPLICIT; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; PORE-SCALE MODEL; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

ACIDIFICATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; REACTION KINETICS;

TOPOLOGY;

BRINE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; PERMEABILITY; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EID: 84896695048     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014289     Document Type: Article

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