Numerical investigations for flow and transport in a rough fracture with a hydromechanical effect

Energy Sources

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 997-1011

  Jeong, Woochang ^a,b   Song, Jaiwoo ^a  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

^b NONE   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Effective normal stress; Geostatistical method; Most efficient flow path; Rough fracture; Spatial correlation length ratio

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; DISPERSIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HYDRAULICS; STRESSES; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

EFFECTIVE NORMAL STRESS; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; MOST EFFICIENT FLOW PATH; SPATIAL CORRELATION LENGTH RATIO;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 23844498911     PISSN: 00908312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908310490450827     Document Type: Article

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