A network model of channel competition in fracture dissolution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Szymczak, Piotrek ^a   Ladd, A J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; ROCKS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FLUID TRANSPORT; FRACTURE DISSOLUTION; PORE-SCALE SIMULATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

FRACTURE; NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646338614     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025334     Document Type: Article

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