Rock fractures are crucial conduits for fluid flow in fractured rock masses. Three-dimensional
(3D) discrete fracture network (DFN) modeling approach, which can explicitly characterize …

Over the last 30 years, discrete fracture network (DFN) modeling has been increasingly
utilized in various practical applications in geoengineering and geosciences. The geometric …

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 …

The most challenging issue in performing underground flow simulations in Discrete Fracture
Networks (DFN) is to effectively tackle the geometrical difficulties of the problem. In this work …

In this article, we investigate the behavior of the condition number of the stiffness matrix
resulting from the approximation of a 2D Poisson problem by means of the virtual element …

In the framework of the discretization of advection–diffusion problems by means of the
Virtual Element Method, we consider stabilization issues. Herein, stabilization is pursued by …

We present a possible framework for the numerical simulation of flow in fractured porous
media that couples mimetic finite differences for the porous matrix with a finite volume …

An efficient low order virtual element method (VEM) for crack-propagation in elastic solids at
small strains is outlined within this work. The recently developed VEM is a competitive …

We present a numerical approximation of Darcy's flow through a fractured porous medium
which employs discontinuous Galerkin methods on polytopic grids. For simplicity, we …

Simulations of fluid flow in naturally fractured rocks have implications for several subsurface
applications, including energy storage and extraction, and waste disposal. We are interested …