Topology of fracture networks

Frontiers in Physics

Volumn 1, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Andresen, Christian André ^a   Hansen, Alex ^a   Le Goc, Romain ^b   Davy, Philippe ^b   Hope, Sigmund Mongstad ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Polytec   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dual networks; Fracture networks; Fractures; Network analysis; Network topology

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY;

DUAL NETWORK; EQUIVALENT NETWORK; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE SYSTEMS; INTERSECTING FRACTURES; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NODES AND LINKS; SMALL WORLDS; THREE DIMENSIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85070787190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296424X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2013.00007     Document Type: Article

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