Characterizing flow and transport in fractured geological media: A review

B Berkowitz - Advances in water resources, 2002 - Elsevier
We analyze measurements, conceptual pictures, and mathematical models of flow and
transport phenomena in fractured rock systems. Fractures and fracture networks are key …

Physics of gravity fingering of immiscible fluids within porous media: An overview of current understanding and selected complicating factors

RJ Glass, MJ Nicholl - Geoderma, 1996 - Elsevier
While gravity fingering of water in unsaturated sands has been demonstrated and studied
under constrained laboratory conditions, its significance under field conditions in the vadose …

Saturated flow in a single fracture: Evaluation of the Reynolds equation in measured aperture fields

MJ Nicholl, H Rajaram, RJ Glass… - Water Resources …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Fracture transmissivity and detailed aperture fields are measured in analog fractures
specifically designed to evaluate the utility of the Reynolds equation. We employ a light …

Recharge from precipitation

JMH Hendrickx, GR Walker - … of phreatic aquifers in (semi-) arid …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Precipitation recharge results from the direct infiltration of precipitation over the landscape.
Since it occurs over vast areas of land even a low precipitation recharge rate can still …

Gravity‐destabilized nonwetting phase invasion in macroheterogeneous porous media: Experimental observations of invasion dynamics and scale analysis

RJ Glass, SH Conrad, W Peplinski - Water resources research, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We designed and conducted experiments in a heterogeneous sand pack where gravity‐
destabilized nonwetting phase invasion (CO2 and trichloroethylene) could be recorded …

Field observation of flow in a fracture intersecting unsaturated chalk

O Dahan, R Nativ, EM Adar… - Water Resources …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Flow through a natural fracture crossing unsaturated chalk in an arid region was
investigated in a field experiment using a specially designed experimental setup. The setup …

Mechanistic modeling of fingering, nonmonotonicity, fragmentation, and pulsation within gravity/buoyant destabilized two‐phase/unsaturated flow

RJ Glass, L Yarrington - Water Resources Research, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Fingering, nonmonotonicity, fragmentation, and pulsation within gravity/buoyant destabilized
two‐phase/unsaturated flow systems has been widely observed with examples in …

[图书][B] Liquid-gas relative permeabilities in fractures: Effects of flow structures, phase transformation and surface roughness

CY Chen - 2005 - search.proquest.com
Two-phase flow through fractured media is important in petroleum, geothermal, and
environmental applications. However, the actual physics and phenomena that occur inside …

Unsaturated flow through a fracture–matrix network: Dynamic preferential pathways in mesoscale laboratory experiments

RJ Glass, MJ Nicholl, SE Pringle… - Water resources …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted two laboratory experiments at the meter scale in which water was applied to
the top of an initially dry, uncemented wall composed of porous bricks. One experiment …

Visualization of surfactant‐enhanced nonaqueous phase liquid mobilization and solubilization in a two‐dimensional micromodel

L Zhong, A Mayer, RJ Glass - Water Resources Research, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Surfactant‐enhanced aquifer remediation is an emerging technology for aquifers
contaminated with nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs). A two‐dimensional micromodel and …