Flow regimes for fluid injection into a confined porous medium

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 767, Issue , 2015, Pages 881-909

  Zheng, Zhong ^a   Guo, Bo ^a   Christov, Ivan C ^a,b   Celia, Michael A ^a   Stone, Howard A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

geophysical and geological flows; gravity currents; porous media

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOSITY;

CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; FLUID FLUID INTERFACES; GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FLOWS; GRAVITY CURRENTS; NON-LINEAR HYPERBOLIC EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR CONVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTION;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID FLOW; FLUID INJECTION; POROUS MEDIUM; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84923902705     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2015.68     Document Type: Article

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