Permeability estimates of self-affine fracture faults based on generalization of the bottleneck concept

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Talon, L ^a   Auradou, H ^a   Hansen, A ^a,b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE FIELDS; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; FRACTURE SURFACES; LOCAL PERMEABILITIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; SELF-AFFINE;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; REYNOLDS EQUATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FRACTURE;

FAULT GEOMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRACTURE APERTURE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PERMEABILITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 77955219810     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008404     Document Type: Article

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