Analytical solutions for two-phase subsurface flow to a leaky fault considering vertical flow effects and fault properties

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3536-3552

  Kang, Mary ^a   Nordbotten, Jan M ^a,b   Doster, Florian ^a   Celia, Michael A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

analytical solutions; faults; leakage; porous media; two phase flow

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; FAULTING; HYDROGEOLOGY; LEAKAGE (FLUID); METHANE; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ANISOTROPIC AQUIFERS; AQUIFER PROPERTIES; EFFECTS OF LEAKAGE; GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS; LOW PERMEABILITY; MULTISCALE MODELS; SUBGRID-SCALE EFFECTS; VERTICAL EQUILIBRIUMS;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; AQUIFER; CARBON DIOXIDE; FAULT; FLOW MODELING; LEAKAGE; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE EFFECT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

EID: 84900842089     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014628     Document Type: Article

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