Flow channeling in a single fracture induced by shear displacement

Geothermics

Volumn 35, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 576-588

  Auradou, Harold ^a   Drazer, German ^b,c   Boschan, Alejandro ^a,d   Hulin, Jean Pierre ^a   Koplik, Joel ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d Facultad de Ingenieria   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Fractal; Fracture; Hot dry rock; Hydrodynamic; Mixing; Permeability; Self affine

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHANNEL FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SELF-AFFINE GEOMETRY; SHEAR DISPLACEMENT;

HOT DRY ROCK SYSTEMS;

ANISOTROPY; CHANNEL FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; HOT DRY ROCK SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHANNEL FLOW; DISPERSION; DISPLACEMENT; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; HOT DRY ROCK; HYDRODYNAMICS; MIXING; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 33846522869     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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