Friction factor of water flow through rough rock fractures

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1125-1134

  Zhang, Z ^a   Nemcik, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fluid flow; Friction factor; Relative roughness; Reynolds number; Rock joint

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CONFINED FRACTURE; FRICTION FACTORS; FRICTION RESISTANCE; JOINT ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENTS; ROCK ENGINEERING; ROCK JOINT; ROUGH ROCK JOINTS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; FRICTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ROCKS;

DRAG; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRICTION; JOINT; PRESSURE FIELD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROCK MECHANICS; ROUGHNESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84883463398     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-012-0328-9     Document Type: Article

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