Reactive silica transport in fractured porous media: Analytical solution for a single fracture

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-86

  Yang, Jianwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; Fracture; Laplace transformation; Porous medium; Silica transport

Indexed keywords

2-D SYSTEMS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; GENERAL ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; HOST MATRICES; HOST ROCKS; HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMATIONS; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE MASS; REACTIVE SILICA; SINGLE FRACTURE; STEADY STATE;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DISPERSIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; SILICA;

FRACTURE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DISPERSION; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE; HOST ROCK; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SILICA;

EID: 82455199168     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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