Tracer Dispersion in Rough Open Cracks

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-116

  Roux, Stéphane ^a   Plouraboué, Franck ^a   Hulin, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Dispersion; Roughness; Self affine; Taylor dispersion

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HELE-SHAW CELL; TAYLOR DISPERSION;

DISPERSIONS;

CRACK; DISPERSION; TRACER;

EID: 0032125299     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006553902753     Document Type: Article

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