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A Capillary Network Model for Coupled Gas and Water Flow in Engineered Barriers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

M. D. Impy ,
P. Grindrod ,
K. J. Clark  and
H. Takase
M. D. Impy
Affiliation:
Intera Information Technologies Ltd, Environmental Division, Chiltern House.45 Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1AT, UK.
P. Grindrod
Affiliation:
Intera Information Technologies Ltd, Environmental Division, Chiltern House.45 Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1AT, UK.
K. J. Clark
Affiliation:
Intera Information Technologies Ltd, Environmental Division, Chiltern House.45 Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1AT, UK.
H. Takase
Affiliation:
JGC Corporation, No 1 Team, Basic Design Department, 14-1 Bessho 1-Chome, Minaniku, Yokohama 2 32, Japan.
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Abstract

A two-dimensional capillary network model for gas migration through a water-saturated medium is presented. The model is an extension of previously developed capillary bundle models, and provides a discrete alternative to classical continuum Darcy models. The need for such an alternative has become apparent from recent experimental results that suggest gas migrates through low permeability water-saturated media via a small number of preferential pathways.

Keywords

fluid dynamicsgasporous mediatwo-phase flow
Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 412: Symposium V – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XIX , 1995 , 701
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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