Permeability, porosity, and percolation properties of two-dimensional disordered fracture networks

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Yazdi, Anoosheh ^a   Hamzehpour, Hossein ^a   Sahimi, Muhammad ^b  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL NUMBERS; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE WIDTH; FRACTURE NETWORK; HIGH DENSITY; INTERMEDIATE DENSITIES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NUMBER DENSITY; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POWER LAW; POWER LAW RELATION; POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIP;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROSITY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOLVENTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FRACTURE;

EID: 80055024249     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.046317     Document Type: Article

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