Understanding of hydraulic properties from configurations of stochastically distributed fracture networks

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1125-1135

  Wang, Mingyu ^a   Kulatilake, P H S W ^b  

^a Robert S Kerr Environmental Research Center   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional block hydraulic conductivity; Discrete fracture fluid flow modelling; Fluid flow; Fractures; Hydraulic conductivity tensor; Representative elementary volume; Stochastically distributed fracture network

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DIRECTIONAL BLOCK HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY VOLUME; STOCHASTICALLY DISTRIBUTED FRACTURE NETWORK;

ROCK MECHANICS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROCK MECHANICS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURE NETWORK; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROCK MASS RESPONSE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 42149106964     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6667     Document Type: Article

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