Pore-scale and continuum simulations of solute transport micromodel benchmark experiments

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 857-879

  Oostrom, M ^a   Mehmani, Y ^d   Romero Gomez, P ^a   Tang, Y ^c   Liu, H ^h   Yoon, H ^e   Kang, Q ^b   Joekar Niasar, V ^f   Balhoff, M T ^d   Dewers, T ^e   Tartakovsky, G D ^a   Leist, E A ^a   Hess, N J ^g   Perkins, W A ^a   Rakowski, C L ^a   Richmond, M C ^a   Serkowski, J A ^a   Werth, C J ^c   Valocchi, A J ^c   Wietsma, T W ^g   Zhang, C ^g,i   more..

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c United States of America   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^g PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enchmarking; Icromodel; Ispersion; Olute transport; Pore scale modeling

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; MICROMECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORE SPACE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 84902234382     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: 15731499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-014-9424-0     Document Type: Article

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