Numerical simulation of shear-induced flow anisotropy and scale-dependent aperture and transmissivity evolution of rock fracture replicas

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-106

  Koyama, Tomofumi ^a   Fardin, N ^a,b   Jing, L ^a   Stephansson, O ^a,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTALS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FLUID FLOW ANISOTROPY; ROCK FRACTURE; SHEAR DISPLACEMENT;

ROCK MECHANICS;

FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 27944459974     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2005.04.006     Document Type: Article

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