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 …

Among the current problems that hydrogeologists face, perhaps there is none as
challenging as the characterization of fractured rock (Faybishenko and Benson 2000). This …

The reduction from three‐to two‐dimensional analysis of the permeability of a fractured rock
mass introduces errors in both the magnitude and direction of principal permeabilities. This …

Unconventional reservoirs are the focus of considerable attention as a primary energy
source. Numerical simulation is a core kernel of reservoir-engineering work flows for …

This book provides a systematic treatment of the geometrical and transport properties of
fractures, fracture networks, and fractured porous media. It is divided into two major parts …

The fracture–matrix system, in which water is stored and transported, has a significant
impact on the hydraulic behaviors of fractured geologic media (FGM). However, it is very …

We introduce the feature rejection algorithm for meshing (FRAM) to generate a high quality
conforming Delaunay triangulation of a three-dimensional discrete fracture network (DFN) …

Fracture networks play a more significant role in conducting fluid flow and solute transport in
fractured rock masses, comparing with that of the rock matrix. Accurate estimation of the …

Practical production optimization problems typically involve large, highly complex reservoir
models, thousands of unknowns and many nonlinear constraints, which makes the …

This study concerns some asymptotic models used to compute the flow outside and inside
fractures in a bidimensional porous medium. The flow is governed by the Darcy law both in …