Multiscale relationships between fracture length, aperture, density and permeability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Neuman, Shlomo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CAPILLARITY; FRACTALS; LIQUIDS; PROGRAMMING THEORY;

FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE DENSITIES; FRACTURE LENGTHS; FRACTURED ROCKS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; LENGTH-SCALE; MULTI-SCALE; POWER LAWS; RANDOM FRACTALS;

FRACTURE;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURED MEDIUM; PERMEABILITY; POWER LAW; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 60149084833     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035622     Document Type: Article

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