Effects of Fracture Surface Roughness on Macroscopic Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Fracture Networks

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2279-2286

  Zhao, Zhihong ^a   Li, Bo ^b   Jiang, Yujing ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Flow; Fracture network; Rock fracture; Roughness; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886976837     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: 1434453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-013-0497-1     Document Type: Article

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