Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Coupling in Fractured Rock (Pageoph Topical Volumes)
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780817602536
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; Groundwater flow; Technology & Industrial Arts; Engineering - Civil; Fluid dynamics; Congresses; Permeability; Rocks
First sentence: The supply and protection of groundwater, the production of hydrocarbon reservoirs, land subsidence in coastal areas, exploitation of geothermal energy and the long-term disposal of critical wastes or of CO2 at depth are all issues of obviously high socio-economic relevance.