Fluid flow in fractally rough synthetic fractures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1803-1806

  Glover, P W J ^a,b   Matsuki, K ^a   Hikima, R ^a   Hayashi, K ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROCKS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SURFACES;

APERTURE; FRACTURE TRANSMISSIVITY; PROFILING MEASUREMENTS; REYNOLDS EQUATION; SURFACE MATCHING;

GEOPHYSICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSMISSIVITY;

JAPAN, HONSHU, HIGASHI HACHIMANTAI GEOTHERMAL FIELD;

FRACTURE SURFACES; FRACTURE TRANSMISSIVITY; MONOFRACTAL; PRESSURE TESTS; SUB-SURFACE FRACTURES; SURFACE MATCHING; THREE DIMENSIONS; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 0031180198     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01670     Document Type: Article

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