The Sim-SEQ Project: Comparison of Selected Flow Models for the S-3 Site

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 207-231

  Mukhopadhyay, Sumit ^a   Doughty, Christine ^a   Bacon, Diana ^b   Li, Jun ^c   Wei, Lingli ^d   Yamamoto, Hajime ^e   Gasda, Sarah ^f   Hosseini, Seyyed A ^g   Nicot, Jean Philippe ^g   Birkholzer, Jens T ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Shell (China) Innovation and R D Centre   (China)

^e TAISEI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^f Uni Research   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Geologic carbon storage; Model comparison; Model uncertainty; Sim SEQ

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON CAPTURE; DIGITAL STORAGE; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GEOLOGIC CARBON STORAGES; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; SIM-SEQ;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 84929061413     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-014-0361-0     Document Type: Article

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