Significant progress has been achieved on radionuclide transport in fractured rocks due to
worldwide urgent needs for geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) …

Quantitative predictions of natural and induced phenomena in fractured rock is one of the
great challenges in the Earth and Energy Sciences with far‐reaching economic and …

Physical heterogeneities are prevalent features of fracture systems and significantly impact
transport processes in aquifers across different spatiotemporal scales. Upscaling solute …

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 …

Image segmentation remains the most critical step in Digital Rock Physics (DRP) workflows,
affecting the analysis of physical rock properties. Conventional segmentation techniques …

A series of fracture geometries of an artificially tensile fractured sandstone, measured during
the hydraulic tests at increasing confine stresses, were adopted to build 3D fracture models …

We report on flow channeling and anomalous transport behaviors in a granite tensile
fracture subject to increasing surface contacts. In this study, numerical experiments are …

The influences of surface roughness and shear processes on fluid flow and solute transport
through three-dimensional (3D) crossed rock fractures, a vital element of fracture networks …

Subsurface substance migration in the fractured rock aquifer is mainly controlled by
fractures, and prediction of solute transport in fractures is important to many geophysical …

Fundamental understanding of solute transport behaviors in rock fractures is of great
importance to many hydrogeological processes. The fate of fluid-borne solutes is inherently …