Experimental evidence of scale-dependent hydraulic conductivity for fully developed turbulent flow in a single fracture

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 339, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 206-215

  Qian, Jiazhong ^a   Zhan, Hongbin ^b   Luo, Shaohe ^c   Zhao, Weidong ^a  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Experimental study; Hydraulic conductivity; Scale dependency; Single fracture

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SCALE DEPENDENCY; SINGLE FRACTURE; TORTUROUS FLOW;

TURBULENT FLOW;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; SCALE EFFECT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 34249661197     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.03.015     Document Type: Article

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