Numerical sensitivity analysis of density driven CO2 convection with respect to different modeling and boundary conditions

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 941-952

  Chevalier, Sylvie ^a   Faisal, Titly Farhana ^a   Bernabe, Yves ^b   Juanes, Ruben ^b   Sassi, Mohamed ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONVECTION PHENOMENA; GEOLOGICAL STORAGE; MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; NUMERICAL SENSITIVITY; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; TAYLOR DISPERSION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84940005600     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: 14321181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-014-1466-2     Document Type: Article

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