Aqueous flow and transport in analog systems of fractures embedded in permeable matrix

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 719-729

  Sonnenborg, Torben Obel ^a   Butts, Michael B ^a,b   Jensen, Karsten Høgh ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DHI   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

DISCRETE FRACTURE MODEL;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

FRACTURE FLOW; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033104622     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900099     Document Type: Article

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