Hydraulic transmissivity and heat exchange efficiency of open fractures: A model based on lowpass filtered apertures

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1064-1072

  Neuville, Amélie ^a,b   Toussaint, Renaud ^a   Schmittbuhl, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fourier analysis; Fractals and multifractals; Fracture and flow; Heat flow; Hydrothermal systems; Numerical approximations and analysis

Indexed keywords

FLOWING FLUID; FLUID TRANSPORT; FOURIER; GEOMETRICAL COMPLEXITY; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; HEAT ADVECTION; HEAT EQUATION; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEAT EXCHANGE EFFICIENCY; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS; LENGTH SCALE; LONG RANGE CORRELATIONS; LOW-PASS; LOW-PASS FILTERING; LUBRICATION APPROXIMATIONS; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; MODEL-BASED OPC; MULTISCALES; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; OPEN JOINT; SELF-AFFINE; SURROUNDING ROCK; TRANSMISSIVITY;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; FRACTURE; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HYDRAULICS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ADVECTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTURE FLOW; GEOMETRY; HEAT FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; STOKES FORMULA; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 80051781503     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05126.x     Document Type: Article

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