Direct measurement of contact area and stress dependence of anisotropic flow through rock fracture with heterogeneous aperture distribution

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 81-87

  Nemoto, Katsumi ^a   Watanabe, Noriaki ^a   Hirano, Nobuo ^a   Tsuchiya, Noriyoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

anisotropic fluid flow; contact area; direct measurement; heterogeneous aperture distribution; rock fracture; stress dependence

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FLUID FLOW; CONTACT AREA; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; HETEROGENEOUS APERTURE DISTRIBUTION; ROCK FRACTURE; STRESS DEPENDENCE;

ANISOTROPY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW SIMULATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROCKS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

FRACTURE;

ANISOTROPY; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; STRESS MEASUREMENT;

EID: 63149165852     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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