Experimental investigation of flow behavior in smooth and rough artificial fractures

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 521, Issue , 2015, Pages 108-118

  Tzelepis, Vassilios ^a   Moutsopoulos, Konstantinos N ^a   Papaspyros, John N E ^a   Tsihrintzis, Vassilios A ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Experiments; Forchheimer equation; Fractures; Izbash equation; Moody diagram; Roughness

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARTIFICIAL FRACTURE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FORCHHEIMER EQUATION; IZBASH EQUATION; MOODY DIAGRAM; NON-MONOTONIC DEPENDENCE; ONEDIMENSIONAL FLOW; PIE- ZOMETRIC HEAD;

FRACTURE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; INDUCED RESPONSE; LAMINAR FLOW; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PIEZOMETER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84949116001     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.054     Document Type: Article

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