Transient film flow on rough fracture surfaces

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1737-1746

  Tokunaga, Tetsu K ^a   Wan, Jiamin ^a   Sutton, Stephen R ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSIVITY; FLUID FILM; FRACTURE; POROUS MEDIUM; TRANSIENT FLOW;

DIFFUSIVITY; FRACTURE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; RICHARDS EQUATION; TRANSIENT FLOW;

DIFFUSION; FILM THICKNESS; POROUS MATERIALS;

AVERAGE VELOCITY; FRACTURE SURFACES; HYDRAULIC DIFFUSIVITY; MATRIC POTENTIAL; PARTIALLY SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; POWER FUNCTIONS; RICHARDS EQUATION; ROUGH FRACTURES;

FRACTURE;

EID: 0033845432     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900079     Document Type: Article

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