Steady dissolution rate due to convective mixing in anisotropic porous media

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 65-73

  Green, Christopher P ^a   Ennis King, Jonathan ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Convective mixing; Heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

ANISOTROPIC POROUS MEDIA; CONVECTIVE MIXING; ENHANCED DISSOLUTIONS; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROGENEOUS MODELS; HOMOGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; IMPERMEABLE BARRIERS; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; DISSOLUTION RATES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFER; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONVECTION; DISSOLUTION; HETEROGENEITY; MIXING; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84905245016     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.07.002     Document Type: Article

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