Linear and Nonlinear Analyses of the Onset of Buoyancy-Induced Instability in an Unbounded Porous Medium Saturated by Miscible Fluids

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 407-433

  Kim, Min Chan ^a   Yadav, Dhananjay ^a  

^a Jeju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gravitational fingering; Linear stability analysis; Nonlinear numerical simulation; Porous media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

GRAVITATIONAL FINGERING; LINEAR STABILITY; NONLINEAR NUMERICAL SIMULATION; QUASI STEADY STATE APPROXIMATION; SHARP INTERFACE; SPECTRAL EXPANSIONS; SYSTEM OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE;

POROUS MATERIALS;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GROWTH RATE; LINEARITY; NONLINEARITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM; SOLUBILITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907596443     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-014-0341-4     Document Type: Article

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