Unsaturated flow through a small fracture-matrix network: Part 1. experimental observations

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 90-100

  Wood, T R ^a   Glass, R J ^b   Mcjunkin, T R ^a   Podgorney, R K ^a   Laviolette, R A ^a   Noah, K S ^a   Stoner, D L ^a   Starr, R C ^a   Baker, K ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL FRACTURE; CAPILLARY BARRIERS; CONSTANT FLOW; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FRACTURE INTERSECTIONS; FRACTURE NETWORK; GENERAL PATTERNS; IDENTICAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL MOISTURE; LABORATORY MODELS; LOWER BOUNDARY; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; NUMERICAL MODELS; SINGLE FRACTURE; THIN WALLS; UNCEMENTED; UNIFORM FLOW; UNSATURATED FLOWS; UPPER SURFACE;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW FIELDS; GLASS FIBERS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 10644273977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.1.90     Document Type: Article

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