Convective mixing influenced by the capillary transition zone

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 417-431

  Elenius, Maria T ^a,c   Nordbotten, Jan M ^b   Kalisch, Henrik ^b  

^a Uni CIPR   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Instability

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BRINE; CAPILLARITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONVECTION; DISSOLUTION; INSTABILITY; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906941153     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-014-9415-1     Document Type: Article

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