The principle "Every result in classical homological algebra should have a
counterpart in Gorenstein homological algebra" is given in [3]. There is a
remarkable body of evidence supporting this claim (cf. [2] and [3]). Perhaps
one of the most glaring exceptions is provided by the fact that tensor products
of Gorenstein projective modules need not be Gorenstein projective, even over
Gorenstein rings. So perhaps it is surprising that tensor products of
Gorenstein injective modules over Gorenstein rings of finite Krull dimension
are Gorenstein injective.
In terms of the duality property of injective preenvelopes and flat
precovers, we get an equivalent characterization of left Noetherian rings. For
a left and right Noetherian ring $R$, we prove that the flat dimension of the
injective envelope of any (Gorenstein) flat left $R$-module is at most the flat
dimension of the injective envelope of $_RR$.