Monodisperse and polydisperse colloid transport in water-saturated fractures with various orientations: Gravity effects

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1249-1255

  James, Scott C ^a   Chrysikopoulos, Constantinos V ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Colloid transport; Dense colloids; Fracture flow and transport; Gravitational effects; Particle tracking; Polydisperse colloid suspensions

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN DIFFUSION; COLLOID DENSITY; COLLOID TRANSPORT; FLOW DIRECTION; FRACTURE FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FRACTURE ORIENTATIONS; FRACTURE WALLS; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; GRAVITY EFFECTS; MEAN PARTICLE SIZE; MONODISPERSE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE TRACKING; POISEUILLE FLOW; POLY-DISPERSE COLLOIDS; ROCK MATRIX; SOLID MATRIXES; SPATIAL MOMENT; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL MOMENTS;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY; FRACTURE; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; POLYDISPERSITY;

COLLOIDS;

BROWNIAN MOTION; COLLOID; DIFFUSION; FLOW FIELD; FRACTURE; GRAVITY; PARTICLE MOTION; POROSITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 80052855195     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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