Improved glass micromodel methods for studies of flow and transport in fractured porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1955-1964

  Wan, Jiamin ^a   Tokunaga, Tetsu K ^a   Tsang, Chin Fu ^a   Bodvarsson, Gudmundur S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; MICROSPHERE;

CAPILLARY; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTATION; FLOW RATE; FRACTURE; MECHANICS; VELOCITY;

FLOW; POROUS MEDIA;

FLUID FLOW; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GLASS MICROMODEL; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0030450875     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00755     Document Type: Article

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