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"Modeling Density-Driven Flow in Porous Media" by Ekkehard Holzbecher
Reviewed by Anne E. Carey, Environmental Institute and Center for Freshwater Studies, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.
This book provides a good review of both the physics and the numerics of modeling density-driven flow. The first chapter gives an introduction to the field and discusses both the author's vocabulary and his philosophy of modeling variable density flow and transport. He explains how his interest in density-driven flow arose from his involvement in the HYDROCOIN experiments to model flow in a salt-formation that was a planned nuclear waste repository. He also explains his preferred term, density-driverc flow, and contrasts it with the more common term variable density flow, a usage that he feels fails to "highlight the interest on the changed flow pattern." The author suggests that those people uninterested in the mathematical details of the problem (like geologists) go straight to the later chapters of the book. However, my prejudice is...