Navier-Stokes flow and transport simulations using real fractures shows heavy tailing due to eddies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Cardenas, M Bayani ^a   Slottke, Donald T ^a   Ketcham, Richard A ^a   Sharp Jr , John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

APERTURE ZONE; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; NAVIER-STOKES FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURE; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 34548598760     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030545     Document Type: Article

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