Flow in unsaturated fractured porous media: Hydraulic conductivity of rough surfaces

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1165-1177

  Or, Dani ^a   Tuller, Markus ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

FLOW MODELING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 0034028258     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900020     Document Type: Article

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