Temperature-dependent permeability and bifurcations in hydrothermal flow

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B1, 2001, Pages 473-495

  Germanovich, Leonid N ^a   Lowell, Robert P ^a   Astakhov, Dmitriy K ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; PERMEABILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 0035090712     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900293     Document Type: Article

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