Immiscible displacements in rough-walled fractures: Competition between roughening by random aperture variations and smoothing by in-plane curvature

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 6 1, 2003, Pages 611101-611106

  Glass, Robert J ^a   Rajaram, Harihar ^b   Detwiler, Russell L ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRAVITATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

CAPILLARY DISPLACEMENT; ROUGH-WALLED FRACTURES;

FRACTURE;

EID: 1442330233     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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