Evolution of fracture permeability due to co-colloidal bacterial transport in a coupled fracture-skin-matrix system

Geoscience Frontiers

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 503-514

  Natarajan, N ^a   Suresh Kumar, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial transport; Colloidal transport; Fracture permeability; Fracture skin; Precipitation dissolution

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTURE APERTURE; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REACTION KINETICS; ROCK MECHANICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84862665921     PISSN: 16749871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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