Analytical and numerical analysis of fluid flow through rough natural fracture profiles

44th US Rock Mechanics Symposium - 5th US/Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hosseinian, A ^a   Rasouli, V ^a   Bahrami, H ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; FLUENT SOFTWARE; FLUID FLOW; FLUID PARTICLES; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; FRACTURE MORPHOLOGY; GOOD CORRELATIONS; NATURAL FRACTURE; NORMAL VECTOR; ON FLOW; REDUCED SIZE; ROUGH-WALLED FRACTURES; SINGLE FRACTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; TORTUOUS PATH;

FLOW FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DROP; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

FRACTURE;

EID: 78751534429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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