Passive temperature tomography experiments to characterize transmissivity and connectivity of preferential flow paths in fractured media

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 512, Issue , 2014, Pages 549-562

  Klepikova, Maria V ^a,b   Le Borgne, Tanguy ^a   Bour, Olivier ^a   Gallagher, Kerry ^a   Hochreutener, Rebecca ^a   Lavenant, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Borehole velocity; Fracture; Inverse model; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PUMPS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TOMOGRAPHY;

BOREHOLE TEMPERATURE; FRACTURE CONNECTIVITY; FRACTURED ROCK AQUIFERS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INVERSE MODELING; TEMPERATURE MODELING; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TRANSMISSIVE FRACTURES;

BOREHOLES;

BOREHOLE; FLOW VELOCITY; FLOWMETER; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURED MEDIUM; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; PUMPING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 84897497837     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.018     Document Type: Article

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