Use of power averaging for quantifying the influence of structure organization on permeability upscaling in on-lattice networks under mean parallel flow

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  De Dreuzy, Jean Raynald ^a   De Boiry, Paul ^a   Pichot, Géraldine ^a   Davy, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; COORDINATION NUMBER; DENSE NETWORK; LATTICE STRUCTURES; LOCAL PERMEABILITIES; LOG-NORMAL; MORPHOLOGICAL CONTROL; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL PRECISION; PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTION; SPARSE NETWORK; SYSTEM SIZE; UPSCALING;

PARALLEL FLOW;

FLOW PATTERN; FLOW STRUCTURE; NETWORK DESIGN; PERMEABILITY; PRECISION; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 77955574311     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008769     Document Type: Article

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