Trapping zones: The effect of fracture roughness on the directional anisotropy of fluid flow and colloid transport in a single fracture

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Boutt, David F ^a,b   Grasselli, Giovanni ^b,c   Fredrich, Joanne T ^b   Cook, Benjamin K ^b   Williams, John R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COLLOIDS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSPHERES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FRACTURE ROUGHNESS; FRACTURE WALL GEOMETRIES; FRACTURED ROCKS; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; NUMERICAL MODELS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ANISOTROPY; COLLOID; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE FLOW; ROUGHNESS;

EID: 34248506555     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027275     Document Type: Article

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