Geometrical and Taylor dispersion in a fracture with random obstacles: An experimental study with fluids of different rheologies

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Boschan, A ^a,b   Ippolito, I ^a   Chertcoff, R ^a   Auradou, H ^b   Talon, L ^b   Hulin, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSES; COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSION (WAVES); FRACTURE FIXATION; TAXICABS;

CONCENTRATION VARIATIONS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; DISPERSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GAUSSIAN; LOCAL SCALING; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; NEWTONIAN; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; SHEAR-THINNING FLUIDS; TAYLOR DISPERSION; TRANSIT TIME;

RHEOLOGY;

CHANNELIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; NEWTONIAN FLUID; PIXEL; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 49449090471     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006403     Document Type: Article

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