The characteristics and estimation of flow through a single rough-walled fracture

Journal of Hydrodynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 315-322

  Liu, Qing Quan ^a   Fan, Hong Guang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

cubic law; effective hydraulic aperture; fracture seepage; non symmetric sinusoidal fracture

Indexed keywords

CUBIC LAWS; EFFECTIVE HYDRAULIC APERTURE; FLOWTHROUGH; FLUENT SOFTWARE; FRACTURE MODEL; NEW MODEL; PARALLEL PLATES; PHASE RETARDATION; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; ROUGH-WALLED FRACTURES; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; SINGLE FRACTURE;

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; FLUID DYNAMICS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84863512458     PISSN: 10016058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-6058(11)60250-3     Document Type: Article

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