Experimental and numerical studies of density driven natural convection in saturated porous media with application to CO2 geological storage

Energy Procedia

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 5323-5330

  Faisal, Titly Farhana ^a   Chevalier, Sylvie ^a   Sassi, Mohamed ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Density driven convection; Hele shaw cell; STOMP WCS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898727607     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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