Critical hydraulic gradient for nonlinear flow through rock fracture networks: The roles of aperture, surface roughness, and number of intersections

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 88, Issue , 2016, Pages 53-65

  Liu, Richeng ^a   Li, Bo ^a,b   Jiang, Yujing ^a,c  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHAOXING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aperture; Critical hydraulic gradient; Discrete fracture network; Intersection; Nonlinear flow; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; INTERSECTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

APERTURE; CRITICAL HYDRAULIC GRADIENT; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; NONLINEAR FLOW; SINGLE INTERSECTIONS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE NETWORK; HYDRAULICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROCK MECHANICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84957599230     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.12.002     Document Type: Article

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