Coupled shear-flow tests for rock fractures with visualization of the fluid flow and their numerical simulations

International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 215-227

  Koyama, Tomofumi ^a,b   Li, Bo ^c   Jiang, Yujing ^c   Jing, Lanru ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite element method (FEM); Fluid flow; Laboratory coupled shear flow tracer tests; Numerical simulations; Reynolds equation; Rock fractures

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149270413     PISSN: 19386362     EISSN: 19397879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3328/IJGE.2008.02.03.215-227     Document Type: Article

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