Emerging Issues in Fractured-Rock Flow and Transport Investigations: Introduction and Overview

Dynamic Fluids and Transport Through in Fractured Rock

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-11

  Faybishenko, Boris ^a   Witherspoon, Paul A ^a   Bodvarsson, Gudmundur S ^a   Gale, John ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Groundwater flow Mathematical models; Rocks Permeability Mathematical models

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER;

FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FRACTURED ROCK;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

EID: 84952908942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/162GM02     Document Type: Chapter

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