Porosity-permeability properties generated with a new 2-parameter 3D hydraulic pore-network model for consolidated and unconsolidated porous media

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 707-723

  Acharya, Ram C ^a   van der Zee, Sjoerd E A T M ^a   Leijnse, Anton ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biconical bond; Effective medium; Pore curvature; Pore size; Throat

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SIZE DETERMINATION;

HYDRAULIC NETWORK MODEL (HYPON); PERMEABILITY; POWER FUNCTIONS;

HYDRAULICS;

GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 3042568885     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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