Numerical simulations examining the relationship between wall-roughness and fluid flow in rock fractures

D Crandall, G Bromhal, ZT Karpyn - … Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining …, 2010 - Elsevier
Understanding how fracture wall-roughness affects fluid flow is important when modeling
many subsurface transport problems. Computed tomography scanning provides a unique …

Effect of surface morphology on fluid flow in rough fractures: a review

Y Zhang, J Chai - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Fracture surface morphology significantly affects fluid flow in rock fractures and has attracted
considerable attention in many seepage-related fields. Fluid flow in rough-walled fractures is …

Effects of roughness and aperture on mesoscopic and macroscopic flow characteristics in rock fractures

J Yang, Z Wang, L Qiao, W Li, J Liu - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Macroscopic nonlinear flow, which is closely related to mesoscopic flow structures such as
vortices, is an important property of fluid flow and solute transport in rock fractures with a …

Effect of discrete fractures with or without roughness on seepage characteristics of fractured rocks

D Shi, L Li, J Liu, M Wu, Y Pan, J Tang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This study proposes a new fractal permeability model for fractured rocks that
comprehensively accounts for the geometric fracture characteristics and the fluid transport …

Effects of surface roughness on the heat transfer characteristics of water flow through a single granite fracture

Y He, B Bai, S Hu, X Li - Computers and Geotechnics, 2016 - Elsevier
The understanding of flow and heat transfer in a rough fracture is not sufficient at present
due to the complexity of quantifying fracture geometry and the lack of experimental work …

Numerical investigation of an equivalent hydraulic aperture for rough rock fractures based on cosimulation

W Zhang, Z Peng, C Han, S Chen - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
A comprehensive nonlinear seepage simulation study for rough fractures remains
technically challenging due to the number of indoor tests and computational volume of …

A new geometrical model for non-linear fluid flow through rough fractures

M Javadi, M Sharifzadeh, K Shahriar - Journal of Hydrology, 2010 - Elsevier
Fractures in rock mass are the main flow paths and introduce as a most important attribute in
rock mass hydraulic behavior. The non-linear fluid flow through rock fractures was studied in …

Effect of shearing on hydraulic properties of rough‐walled fractures under different boundary conditions

C Wang, Y Jiang, H Luan… - Energy Science & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study experimentally investigated nonlinear flow characteristics of rough‐walled
fractures during shear process under different boundary conditions, using the servo …

Nonlinear flow behavior through rough-walled rock fractures: the effect of contact area

F Xiong, Q Jiang, Z Ye, X Zhang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2018 - Elsevier
A computed scanning technology was applied to measure fracture tomography, and three-
dimensional fracture meshes were established. Water flow experiments and simulations on …

Numerical study of forward and reverse flow characteristics of rough-walled tree-like fracture networks

D Zhang, H Gao, Q Dong, C Xiong - … and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and …, 2021 - Springer
The transport properties of complex fracture networks are of great significance to predicting
the subsurface flow. Tree-like fracture networks were generated according to the fractal …