Scale analysis of miscible density-driven convection in porous media

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 749, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 519-541

  Jenny, Patrick ^a   Lee, Joohwa S ^a   Meyer, Daniel W ^a   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

buoyancy driven instability; convection in porous media; fingering instability

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS;

BUOYANCY DRIVEN INSTABILITY; CONVECTION IN POROUS MEDIAS; FINGERING INSTABILITIES; INITIAL PERTURBATION; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES; SCALAR DISSIPATION RATE; SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTION; TRIPLE CORRELATION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

BUOYANCY; CONVECTION; DISSIPATION; FINGERING; INSTABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 84915747964     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.229     Document Type: Article

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