Implementation and evaluation of permeability-porosity and tortuosity-porosity relationships linked to mineral dissolution-precipitation

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 655-671

  Xie, Mingliang ^a   Mayer, K Ulrich ^a   Claret, Francis ^b   Alt Epping, Peter ^c   Jacques, Diederik ^d   Steefel, Carl ^e   Chiaberge, Christophe ^b   Simunek, Jiri ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark; CrunchFlow; HP1; MIN3P; Mineral dissolution precipitation; Permeability porosity relationship; PFlotran; Tortuosity porosity relationship; TOUGHREACT

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; MINERAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REACTIVE TRANSPORT; TORTUOSITY;

EID: 84933180425     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: 15731499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-014-9458-3     Document Type: Article

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