Parameters affecting maximum fluid transport in large aperture fractures

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1219-1228

  Dragila, Maria Ines ^a   Weisbrod, Noam ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Inst for Water Sci/Technologies   (Israel)

Author keywords

Capillary flow; Contact angle; Film flow; Fluid transport; Fracture flow; Fracture intersection; Fractured rock; Unsaturated; Vadose zone

Indexed keywords

GLASS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FLUID TRANSPORT;

FLOW OF WATER;

CAPILLARY FLOW; FLUID TRANSPORT; FRACTURED MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSATURATED FLOW;

FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURED MEDIUM; UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 0242667009     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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