Pore-scale and multiscale numerical simulation of flow and transport in a laboratory-scale column

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1023-1035

  Scheibe, Timothy D ^a,c   Perkins, William A ^a   Richmond, Marshall C ^a   McKinley, Matthew I ^a,b   Romero Gomez, Pedro D J ^a   Oostrom, Mart ^a   Wietsma, Thomas W ^c   Serkowski, John A ^a   Zachara, John M ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Silverline   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

flow; pore scale; porous media; simulation; transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXCITONS; MICROMETERS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

FLOW; FLOW IN POROUS SOLIDS; HIGH PERFORMANCE CODES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PORE SCALE; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PORE SPACE; POREWATER; POROUS MEDIUM; SIMULATION; STOKES FORMULA;

EID: 85027942183     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015959     Document Type: Article

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