Experimental mixing variability in intersecting natural fractures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 4303-4306

  Johnson, J ^a   Brown, S ^a  

^a New England Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; FORECASTING; MIXING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

STREAMLINE ROUTING;

GEOPHYSICS; FRACTURE;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; MIXING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAMLINE (FLOW); SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CHANNEL FLOW; FRACTURED MEDIUM; MIXING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FLUID COMPOSITION; INTERSECTING FRACTURES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MIXING EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL FRACTURE; PARALLEL PLATES; ROUGH-WALLED FRACTURES; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS;

EID: 0035891679     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013446     Document Type: Article

References (8)

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