Buoyancy-driven crack propagation from an over-pressured source

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 536, Issue , 2005, Pages 79-98

  Roper, S M ^a   Lister, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOLIDS;

ELASTIC DEFORMATION; ELASTIC SOILD; OVERPRESSURED SOURCE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FLUID FLOW;

EID: 23844470157     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005004337     Document Type: Article

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