Modeling of thermally driven hydrological processes in partially saturated fractured rock

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Tsang, Y W ^a   Birkholzer, J T ^a   Mukhopadhyay, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLING; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURED MEDIUM; HEAT SOURCE; IN SITU TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION;

EID: 75749134491     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008RG000265     Document Type: Article

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