Seepage flow with free surface in fracture networks

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 176-186

  Jiang, Qinghui ^a   Yao, Chi ^a   Ye, Zuyang ^a   Zhou, Chuangbing ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; NATURAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDES); UNCONFINED SEEPAGE; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRACTURE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

SEEPAGE;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DARCY LAW; EQUATION; FLOW PATTERN; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE NETWORK; SEEPAGE;

EID: 84876549445     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011991     Document Type: Article

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