Effects of dry fractures on matrix diffusion in unsaturated fractured rocks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Seol, Yongkoo ^a   Liu, Hui Hai ^a   Bodvarsson, Gudmundur S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRACTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

MATRIX DIFFUSION; CONDUCTING LIQUID; DIRECT CONTACT; FRACTURE NETWORK; MATRIX BLOCKS; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; SIMULATION STUDIES; UNSATURATED FRACTURED ROCKS;

ROCK MECHANICS; FRACTURE;

DIFFUSION; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0037590268     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016118     Document Type: Article

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