Diversity of channeling flow in heterogeneous aperture distribution inferred from integrated experimental-numerical analysis on flow through shear fracture in granite

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

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

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINING PRESSURE; CRUST; DISPLACEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE NETWORK; GRANITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 69249140710     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005959     Document Type: Article

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