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Cheung & Rajaram 2002
Cheung, W. and Rajaram, H. (2002). Dissolution finger growth in variable aperture fractures: Role of the tip-region flow field. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2002GL015196. issn: 0094-8276.

We present high-resolution computations to demonstrate the influence of the tip-region flow field on dissolution finger morphology in variable aperture fractures. Linear fingers are observed for small values ( about 25 ¿ 25 correlation lengths.

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Keywords
Physical Properties of Rocks, Fracture and flow, Physical Properties of Rocks, Permeability and porosity, Hydrology, Groundwater hydrology, Hydrology, Groundwater transport, Mathematical Geophysics, Modeling
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Geophysical Research Letters
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