Modeling Waste Disposal Using a Comprehensive Coupled Approach
Mao Bai, Sidney Green and Roberto Suarez-Rivera, TerraTek, Inc., Salt
Lake City, Utah 84108, USA
Jean-Claude Roegiers, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019,
USA
Baoping Zhang, Branch of Scientific Research Institute, CNPC, Langfang,
China.
This paper was prepared for presentation at the 2ns International Conference
on New Development in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering held in Shenyang,
China, 10-12 October 2002,
Copyright 2002, Rinton Press, New Jersey,
USA.
Abstract
Waste disposal involves complicated multiple processes of solid deformation,
fluid flow, thermal transfer, and particle transport. This paper presents
a unified formulation of a comprehensive coupling among the mechanical,
transport, thermal, and flow processes. The application of the general
formulation focuses on the transport process where the critical parameter
that affects the injection rate decline has been identified.
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