Countercurrent Flow Enhances CO2 Accumulation During Upward Migration in Storage Aquifers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using high-resolution numerical simulation, we model the purely buoyant flow of CO2 in a two-dimensional (2D) closed aquifer domain. The domain is composed of two heterogeneous layers with different average permeabilities. The high permeability layer is overlain by the low permeability layer, and each layer has heterogeneous capillary pressure functions correlated with geostatistically-assigned permeabilities. Initially, CO2 is emplaced at the bottom with a given column height and then allowed to rise. During CO2 upward migration, two types of CO2 accumulations are observed: one accumulation is capillary-barrier trapping, and the other is permeability-retarded. More importantly, capillary-trapped CO2 interacts with the permeability-retarded CO2. The former CO2 trapping exhibits a much higher saturation, which causes the latter CO2, under countercurrent flow (i.e., CO2 rises and while water falls), to move upward much slowly. Thus, accurate evaluation of CO2 upward migration should consider the interaction between capillary-trapping and permeability-retardation.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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