Study of permeability in single fracture under effects of coupled fluid flow and chemical dissolution

Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3361-3366

  Su, Bao Yu ^a   Zhang, Wen Jie ^a,b   Sheng, Jin Chang ^a   Xu, Xiao Chen ^c   Zhan, Mei Li ^a   Liu, Ji Shan ^d  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Water Resources Department of Jiangxi Province   (China)

^c Guangchuan Engineering Consulting Corporation   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coupled fluid flow and chemical dissolution processes; Fractal theory; Numerical model; Rock fracture

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DISSOLUTION; DISSOLUTION PROCESS; ENGINEERING TOOLS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FLUID FLOW; FRACTAL THEORY; INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS; MINERAL CHEMICALS; MULTI-PHYSICS; MULTI-PHYSICS MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERMEABILITY CHANGE; ROCK FRACTURE; ROCK FRACTURES; ROUGH FRACTURES; SALT ROCKS; SIMULATED RESULTS; SINGLE FRACTURE; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DISSOLUTION; FLUIDS; FRACTALS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 78650465120     PISSN: 10007598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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