Numerical modelling of flow and transport in rough fractures

Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 535-545

  Briggs, Scott ^a   Karney, Bryan W ^a   Sleep, Brent E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Fracture flow; Hydrogeology; Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM); Random walk (RW); Solute transport

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRACTURE FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 85006219594     PISSN: 16747755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrmge.2014.10.004     Document Type: Article

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