Modeling spatial fracture intensity as a control on flow in fractured rock

CC Lee, CH Lee, HF Yeh, HI Lin - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2011 - Springer
… discrete spatial fractures in synthetic fractured media of three models to evaluate the potential
utility of modeling groundwater flow by continuum models for characterizing fracture zones …

CO2 flow through a fractured rock volume: Insights from field data, 3D fractures representation and fluid flow modeling

S Bigi, M Battaglia, A Alemanni, S Lombardi… - … Gas Control, 2013 - Elsevier
… The physical and geometrical characteristics of each fracture and their spatial distribution …
of fractured rock. Although roughness is considered one of the main features that control

Characterizing flow and transport in fractured geological media: A review

B Berkowitz - Advances in water resources, 2002 - Elsevier
models of flow and transport phenomena in fractured rock systems. Fractures and fracture
… ––though certainly not all––fracture properties and spatial distributions. These issues are …

Mathematical algorithm development and parametric studies with the GEOFRAC three-dimensional stochastic model of natural rock fracture systems

VM Ivanova, R Sousa, B Murrihy, HH Einstein - Computers & Geosciences, 2014 - Elsevier
… during 2010–2012 on modeling of natural rock fracture systems with the … 2 consists of two
sets, the intensity of which varies in space in … mechanics and fractured rock hydrogeology. To …

Microcrack-based coupled damage and flow modeling of fracturing evolution in permeable brittle rocks

YL Lu, D Elsworth, LG Wang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2013 - Elsevier
… post-peak strength metrics of stress drop, AE event counts, permeability evolution and failure
modes. The model is applied to the simulation of hydraulic fracturing in permeable rocks to …

An integrated workflow for stress and flow modelling using outcrop-derived discrete fracture networks

K Bisdom, HM Nick, G Bertotti - Computers & Geosciences, 2017 - Elsevier
… The third challenge is modelling permeability through fractured rocks, taking into account …
spacing distribution calculated using a box-counting method; e) Spatial fracture intensity

Investigating hydraulic fracturing complexity in naturally fractured rock masses using fully coupled multiscale numerical modeling

F Zhang, B Damjanac, S Maxwell - Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2019 - Springer
… In the next few sections, we present five different case studies with regard to hydraulic
fracturing in a naturally fractured rock mass, covering a large range of temporal and spatial scales. …

Impact of fracture development on the effective permeability of porous rocks as determined by 2‐D discrete fracture growth modeling

A Paluszny, SK Matthai - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… We study their impact on fluid flow as a function of fracture density. Fractures are represented
… the techniques used to study spatial organization of the generated fractured rock analogs. …

Three-dimensional hierarchical stochastic modeling of rock fracture systems: An example from the Yates field

VM Ivanova, HH Einstein - ARMA North America Rock Mechanics …, 2004 - onepetro.org
… In summary, spatially variant fracture intensity is modeled as … fractured rocks; development
of technologies to enhance petroleum production from fractured reservoirs; prediction of flow

Multi-fracture propagation modeling: Applications to hydraulic fracturing in shales and tight gas sands

JE Olson - ARMA US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, 2008 - onepetro.org
… resultant fracture network geometry from horizontal wells and in naturally fractured formations.
… or sequential hydraulic fractures from a horizontal well, it is paramount to space injection …