Permeability anisotropy and fabric development: A mechanistic explanation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Daigle, Hugh ^a,b   Dugan, Brandon ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY RATIO; AVERAGE ANGLE; CLAY GRAINS; CYLINDRICAL PARTICLES; FABRIC DEVELOPMENT; GRAIN ASPECT RATIOS; GRAIN ROTATION; HIGH ASPECT RATIO PARTICLES; HORIZONTAL PLANES; LATTICE-BOLTZMANN SIMULATION; LOW ASPECT RATIO; PERMEABILITY ANISOTROPY; SILTY CLAY; TRANSVERSE DIRECTIONS; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

ANISOTROPY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN;

ASPECT RATIO;

ANISOTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SILTY CLAY;

EID: 84055188751     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011110     Document Type: Article

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