Fluid flow and mixing in rough-walled fracture intersections

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Johnson, Joel ^a   Brown, Stephen ^a   Stockman, Harlan ^b  

^a New England Research   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURED MEDIUM; MIXING; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 34547897731     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004087     Document Type: Article

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