A study of flow-wetted surface area in a single fracture as a function of its hydraulic conductivity distribution

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Larsson, Martin ^a   Niemi, Auli ^a   Tsang, Chin Fu ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; CONTACT AREAS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; FLOW DOMAINS; FLOWING WATERS; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITIES; FRACTURE NETWORK; LOG-NORMAL; PARTICLE FLOW; PARTICLE TRACKING; ROCK FRACTURES; SINGLE FRACTURE; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE AREA; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TYPE CURVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SCALE (DEPOSITS); SORPTION; STATISTICS; WETTING;

FRACTURE;

CORRELATION; DIFFUSION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTURE APERTURE; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SORPTION; SURFACE AREA; TRACER; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84856067488     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010686     Document Type: Article

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