Dissolution finger growth in variable aperture fractures: Role of the tip-region flow field

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 32-1-32-4

  Cheung, Wendy ^a   Rajaram, Harihar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISSOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; WINDING;

VARIABLE APERTURE FRACTURES;

GEOPHYSICS;

DISSOLUTION; FLOW FIELD; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; GROWTH RATE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0037113616     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl015196     Document Type: Article

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