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Dershowitz & Miller 1995
Dershowitz, W. and Miller, I. (1995). Dual porosity fracture flow and transport. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL01099. issn: 0094-8276.

In rock masses where fracture flow greatly exceeds flow through the rock matrix, the matrix provides a storage porosity which needs to be considered for transient flow, and for solute transport. This paper presents a dual-porosity, single permeability approach for evaluation of flow and transport in fractured rock. The fracture network flow approach is based on a generic matrix block similar to the method of Warren and Root (1963), applied to realistic fracture geometries. The solute transport approach is based on a probabilistic concept of matrix diffusion as a process of Brownian motion, implemented using a probabilistic particle tracking technique. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Keywords
Physical Properties of Rocks, Fracture and flow, Physical Properties of Rocks, Transport properties
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Geophysical Research Letters
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