Trends, prospects and challenges in quantifying flow and transport through fractured rocks

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 Số 1 - Trang 124-147 - 2005
Shlomo P. Neuman1
1Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85750, USA

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