CURVAZ - A program to calculate magnitude and direction of maximum structural curvature and fracture-flow index

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 399-407

  Özkaya, Sait Ismail ^a  

^a BAKER ATLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction and magnitude; Eigenvalues; Fracture flow index; In situ stress; Jacobian; Principal structural curvatures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FRACTURE; MAPS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

STRUCTURAL CURVATURES;

COMPUTERS;

CURVATURE; EIGENVALUE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; MAGNITUDE; STRESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036540988     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(01)00050-4     Document Type: Article

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