Evaluation of permeability and non-Darcy flow in vuggy macroporous limestone aquifer samples with lattice Boltzmann methods

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 216-230

  Sukop, Michael C ^a   Huang, Haibo ^b   Alvarez, Pedro F ^a   Variano, Evan A ^c   Cunningham, Kevin J ^d  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DARCY-FORCHHEIMER EQUATION; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; INTRINSIC PERMEABILITY; LATTICE BOLTZMANN FLOW; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; LATTICE BOLTZMANN MODELS; STANDARD MEASUREMENTS;

AQUIFERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SEEPAGE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AQUIFER; DARCY LAW; DATA ACQUISITION; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; KARST HYDROLOGY; LIMESTONE; MACROPORE; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; PORE SPACE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BISCAYNE AQUIFER; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876576249     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011788     Document Type: Article

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