Tortuosity of fluid flow through a fracture is mainly caused by the geometry of the fracture
surface and contact condition. In addition, it causes the deviation from the cubic law of …

Water flow experiments in single tensile and shear granite fractures were conducted to
investigate the nonlinear flow behavior. Fracture geometry parameters based on single …

Local cubic law (LCL) is one of the most commonly applied physical laws for flow in single
fractures (SF) and fractured media. The foundation of LCL is Darcian flow. This experimental …

Accurate quantification of rock fracture aperture is important in investigating hydro-
mechanical properties of rock fractures. Liquefied wood's metal was used successfully to …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of contact rate on fluid flow through
rock fractures. Different contact rate fracture models are constituted by changing the relative …

In this paper, the fluid flow through rough fractures was investigated via numerical simulation
based on the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The accuracy of LBM was validated through …

A hydro-mechanical testing system, which is capable of measuring both the flow rates and
the normal and shear displacement of a rock fracture, was built to investigate the hydraulic …

This study presents a predictive model to estimate the permeability of 3D self-affine rough
fractures during shear. Numerical simulations of shear-flow tests under different normal …

This paper experimentally investigates the role of shear processes on the variation of critical
Reynolds number and nonlinear flow through rough‐walled rock fractures. A quantitative …

Flow in fractures is traditionally modeled by characterizing the aperture distribution with
some deterministic function or set of stochastic parameters. Other models generate the …