Modelling fluid flow through a single fracture with different contacts using cellular automata

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 959-969

  Pan, Peng Zhi ^a   Feng, Xia Ting ^a   Xu, Ding Ping ^a   Shen, Lin Fang ^a   Yang, Jin Bao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cellular automaton; Channelling flow; Contact ratio; Fluid flow; Single fracture

Indexed keywords

CHANNELLING FLOW; CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT RATIO; CUBIC LAWS; EVOLUTION RULES; FLOW BEHAVIOURS; FLOW PATH; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOUR; LOCALISATION; NATURAL FRACTURE; ROCK FRACTURES; SINGLE FRACTURE; TRANSMISSIVITY;

AUTOMATA THEORY; CELLS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; FLUIDS; FRACTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL METHOD; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 80052943870     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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