Fluid injection into a confined porous layer

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 745, Issue , 2014, Pages 592-620

  Pegler, Samuel S ^a   Huppert, Herbert E ^a,b,c   Neufeld, Jerome A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geophysical and geological flows; gravity currents; porous media

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOUS FLOW;

ASYMPTOTIC POSITION; GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FLOWS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; IMPERMEABLE BOUNDARY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MOVING CONTACT LINES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL EQUATIONS; VISCOUS GRAVITY CURRENTS;

VISCOSITY;

FLUID INJECTION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PERTURBATION; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE DROP; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 84923857399     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.76     Document Type: Article

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