Macro-permeability distribution and anisotropy in a 3D fissured and fractured clay rock: 'Excavation Damaged Zone' around a cylindrical drift in Callovo-Oxfordian Argilite (Bure)

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 1932-1948

  Ababou, Rachid ^a   Cañamón Valera, Israel ^b   Poutrel, Adrien ^c  

^a IMFT   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c ANDRA   (France)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Equivalent permeability tensor; Fractured clay rock; Gallery and EDZ; Matrix Fracture superposition; Radioactive waste disposal

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR-BASED; CUBIC LAWS; CURVED SHAPES; DARCY LAW; DARCY'S LAW; DRIFT WALLS; EQUIVALENT PERMEABILITY; EXCAVATION DAMAGED ZONES; FRACTURE SURFACES; FRACTURED CLAY; FRACTURED ROCK; GALLERY AND EDZ; GEOLOGIC REPOSITORY; GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE; IN-SITU; INTACT ROCKS; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; MATRIX; MOVING WINDOW; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; POISEUILLE FLOW; POROUS ROCKS; PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; RADIAL PROFILES; SIMULATION CODE; SUB-DOMAINS; TANGENT PLANE; THICK LAYERS; UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES; UPSCALING; VARIABLE PERMEABILITY;

ANISOTROPY; EXCAVATION; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; ROCKS; SEEPAGE; TENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WASTE DISPOSAL;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARGILLITE; CLAY; DARCY LAW; FISSURE; OXFORDIAN; PERMEABILITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 82955237598     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2011.07.032     Document Type: Article

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