Fluid flow through rough fractures in rocks I: High resolution aperture determinations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 267-282

  Isakov, Evgeny ^a   Ogilvie, Steven R ^a   Taylor, Colin W ^a   Glover, Paul W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluid dynamics; Fractures; Image analysis; Physical models; Rocks

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE FLOW; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL METHOD; ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0034770767     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00424-1     Document Type: Article

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