Laboratory Simulation of Flow through Single Fractured Granite

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 987-1000

  Singh, K K ^a   Singh, D N ^a   Ranjith, P G ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confining pressure; Fluid flow; Non linear flow; Rockmass; Single fracture

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GRANITE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROCK PRESSURE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CONFINING PRESSURES; CYLINDRICAL SAMPLES; ENGINEERING PROJECT; LABORATORY SIMULATION; NONLINEAR FLOW; ROCK-MASS; ROUGH-WALLED FRACTURES; SINGLE FRACTURE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CONFINING PRESSURE; DARCY LAW; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE NETWORK; GRANITE; HYDROGEOLOGY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROCK MASS RESPONSE; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 84928330501     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-014-0630-9     Document Type: Article

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