Connectivity of joint networks with power law length distributions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2661-2670

  Renshaw, Carl E ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; JOINT; NETWORK ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER RESOURCES;

EFFECTIVE FRACTURE; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM MODEL; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GEOMECHANICAL MODEL; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; MEASURABLE PARAMETERS; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 0032826815     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900170     Document Type: Article

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