Abstract: The theoretical examination of the combined effect of heat and mass transfer in porous media is relevant to improve understanding thermohaline natural convection in both local- and basin-scale groundwater flow systems. Numerical model calculations were carried out to investigate the interaction of the temperature- (ΔT) and salinity-driven (Δc) natural convection in a synthetic model, as in a two-dimensional homogeneous porous medium. Effects of the non-dimensional thermal expansion (α' = αΔT = 10–3–1) and the non-dimensional relative d...
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