Transport in fractured porous solids

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 495-498

  Mattisson, Charlotte ^a,c   Knackstedt, Mark A ^a   Senden, Tim J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SINTERING;

DISORDERED FRACTURES; SINTERED POROUS MEDIA; TRANSPORT COEFFICIENT;

ROCK MECHANICS; FRACTURE;

MASS TRANSFER; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIA;

FLUID FLOW; FLUID TRANSPORT; FRACTURE; FRACTURED MEDIUM; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RESISTIVITY;

DISCRETE FRACTURES; EMPIRICAL EXPRESSION; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MATRIX POROSITY; SINTERED POROUS MEDIA; STRONG DEPENDENCES; TRANSPORT COEFFICIENT;

EID: 0031104605     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00235     Document Type: Article

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