Fluid flow and effective permeability of an infinite matrix containing disc-shaped cracks

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-46

  Pouya, Ahmad ^a   Vu, Minh Ngoc ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c LE QUY DON TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Crack; Effective permeability; Poiseuille's law; Porous media; Steady state flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PERMEABILITY; BASIC EQUATIONS; CIRCULAR CRACKS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DARCY'S FLOW; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; ELLIPSOIDAL INCLUSIONS; ELLIPTICAL CRACKS; FLOWTHROUGH; LIMITING CASE; MORI-TANAKA; POISEUILLE'S LAW; POROUS BODIES; SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; SINGLE CRACK; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; UPSCALING;

POROUS MATERIALS; STEADY FLOW;

CRACKS;

CRACK; DARCY LAW; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; STEADY FLOW;

EID: 84859931894     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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