Navier-Stokes Simulations of Fluid Flow Through a Rock Fracture

Dynamic Fluids and Transport Through in Fractured Rock

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 55-64

  Al Yaarubi, Azzan H ^a   Pain, Chris C ^b   Grattoni, Carlos A ^b   Zimmerman, Robert W ^c  

^a PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Groundwater flow Mathematical models; Rocks Permeability Mathematical models

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAMINATES; PINCH EFFECT; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ADDITIONAL PRESSURE DROPS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; LUBRICATION MODELS; NAVIER STOKES SIMULATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE PROFILOMETERS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 84952920113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/162GM07     Document Type: Chapter

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