Fluid flow in measured apertures of a single rock joint: A depth averaged model and the local cubic law simulations

Proceedings of the 41st U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium - ARMA's Golden Rocks 2006 - 50 Years of Rock Mechanics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mgaya, P L ^a   Hosoda, T ^a   Kishida, K ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE FIELD DISTRIBUTION; APERTURE FIELDS; CUBIC LAWS; DEPTH-AVERAGED MODELS; DISCHARGE MEASUREMENTS; FLOW MODEL; FLUID FLOW; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDITIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ROCK JOINT; SIMULATED RESULTS;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 69149098655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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