Unsaturated flow in a quasi-three-dimensional fractured medium with spatially variable aperture

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1531-1540

  Abdel Salam, Assem ^a   Chrysikopoulos, Constantinos V ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURES; POROUS MEDIA-FLOW THROUGH;

APERTURE; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURED MEDIUM; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNSATURATED FLOW;

ABSORPTION; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE; MOISTURE; ROCK; SIMULATION;

EID: 0029669575     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00656     Document Type: Article

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