Miscible displacement fronts of shear thinning fluids inside rough fractures

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Boschan, A ^a,b   Auradou, H ^a   Ippolito, I ^b   Chertcoff, R ^b   Hulin, J P ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLOW OF WATER; RHEOLOGY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

MACRODISPERSION CONTROLS; TAYLOR DISPERSION; TRANSPARENT FRACTURE;

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; RHEOLOGY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; FLOW VELOCITY; FRACTURE FLOW; FRONTAL FEATURE; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 34247598276     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005324     Document Type: Article

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