Role of geomechanically grown fractures on dispersive transport in heterogeneous geological formations

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

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Nick, H M ^a,b   Paluszny, A ^b   Blunt, M J ^b   Matthai, S K ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Montan University   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; DISCRETE FRACTURES; DISPERSIVE TRANSPORT; EQUIVALENT PERMEABILITY; FAILURE CRITERIA; FINITE-ELEMENT; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; FINITE-VOLUME; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FLUX RATIO; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE DENSITY; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; GEOLOGICAL FORMATION; IMPLICIT SCHEMES; LINEAR ELASTIC; LOW DENSITY; MACRODISPERSION; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; QUASI-STATIC PROPAGATION; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; ROCK MATRIX; SECOND ORDERS; SUBCRITICAL CRACK GROWTH; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

FRACTURE;

EID: 81555200653     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.056301     Document Type: Article

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