Experimental evidence of the anisotropy of tracer dispersion in rough fractures with sheared walls

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

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

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b Facultad de Ingenieria   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE FIELDS; DISPERSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCES; FLOWING FLUIDS; LARGE STRUCTURES; NEWTONIAN BEHAVIORS; PARALLEL CHANNELS; ROUGH FRACTURES; SHEAR DISPLACEMENTS; SHEAR RATES; SHEAR-THINNING; TRACER DISPERSIONS; TRANSIT TIME;

AMPLIFICATION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; POLYMERS; SHEAR FLOW; TAXICABS;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

ANISOTROPY; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; NEWTONIAN FLUID; POLYMER; SHEAR; TRACER; WALL;

EID: 65349135954     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007461     Document Type: Article

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