Up-scaling of double porosity fractured media using continuous-time random walks methods

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 315-337

  Noetinger B ^a   Estebenet, T ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

Brownian motions; Dual porosity; Fracture; Random walks; Up scaling

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROCKS; TENSORS;

CONTINUOUS TIME RANDOM WALKS; DUAL POROSITY; UP SCALING;

POROSITY;

BROWNIAN MOTION; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; ROCK;

BROWNIAN MOTION; FRACTURED MEDIUM; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; ROCK;

EID: 0342369541     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006639025910     Document Type: Article

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