The "small-world" topology of rock fracture networks

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 323-328

  Valentini, Luca ^a   Perugini, Diego ^b   Poli, Giampiero ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

"Small world" networks; Fracture networks; Graph theory; Rocks

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FLUIDS; GEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOLOGY;

FRACTURE NETWORKS; GEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; LOCAL TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY; NATURAL NETWORKS; SHALLOW AQUIFERS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 33846224410     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.025     Document Type: Article

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