Mechanical and transport constitutive models for fractures subject to dissolution and precipitation

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 533-549

  Elsworth, Derek ^a   Yasuhara, Hideaki ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fractures; Permeability; Precipitation and dissolution; Pressure solution

Indexed keywords

APPLIED STRESS; COMBINED EFFECT; FLOW SYSTEMS; FRACTURE SEALING; FRACTURE WALLS; FRACTURED MEDIA; MASS BALANCE; MINERAL MASS; PRECIPITATION AND DISSOLUTION; PRESSURE SOLUTION; SYSTEMS-DRIVEN; TRANSIENT CHANGES; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; ZERO-ORDER MODELS;

ADVECTION; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; EMBANKMENT DAMS; FLUIDS; FRACTURE; MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS;

DISSOLUTION;

ADVECTION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DISSOLUTION; FRACTURED MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRESSURE SOLUTION;

EID: 77953526248     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: 10969853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.831     Document Type: Article

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