Non-darcian two-phase flow in a transparent replica of a rough-walled rock fracture

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Nowamooz, Ali ^a   Radilla, Giovanni ^a   Fourar, Mostafa ^a  

^a NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY; CUBIC LAWS; FORCHHEIMER'S LAW; GAS RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; HIGH-FLOW RATE; INERTIAL COEFFICIENTS; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; ROCK FRACTURES; SINGLE- AND TWO-PHASE FLOW; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; TWO-PHASE FLOWS;

CAPILLARITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRACTURE; TWO PHASE FLOW;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; FRACTURE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 69249107713     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007315     Document Type: Article

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