A review of existing methods used to evaluate the hydraulic conductivity of a fractured rock mass

A Shahbazi, A Saeidi, R Chesnaux - Engineering Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the existing methods for evaluating the hydraulic conductivity of a rock mass.
Rock mass permeability may be assessed using empirical, analytical and numerical …

[HTML][HTML] Groundwater flow through fractured rocks and seepage control in geotechnical engineering: Theories and practices

CB Zhou, YF Chen, R Hu, Z Yang - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Groundwater flow through fractured rocks has been recognized as an important issue in
many geotechnical engineering practices. Several key aspects of fundamental mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Key issues in water sealing performance of underground oil storage caverns: Advances and perspectives

Y Li, B Zhang, L Wang, Y Xue, H Wang, L Shi… - Journal of Rock …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water sealing performance is important for underground water-sealed oil storage (UWSOS).
The key issues concerning water sealing performance mainly include the permeability of …

A new method for determining the hydraulic aperture of rough rock fractures using the support vector regression

Z Sun, L Wang, JQ Zhou, C Wang - Engineering Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding fluid flow in rock fractures is relevant to many engineering applications,
including underground nuclear waste disposition, oil and gas exploitation, dam and slope …

Inverse modeling of saturated-unsaturated flow in site-scale fractured rocks using the continuum approach: A case study at Baihetan dam site, Southwest China

YF Chen, H Yu, HZ Ma, X Li, R Hu, Z Yang - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Modeling saturated-unsaturated flow in fractured rock formations remains a challenging
issue due to the difficulties in properly calibrating the unsaturated flow properties for …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling unsaturated flow in fractured rocks with scaling relationships between hydraulic parameters

YF Chen, Y Ye, R Hu, Z Yang, CB Zhou - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Modeling unsaturated flow in fractured rocks is essential in various subsurface engineering
applications, but it remains a great challenge due to the difficulties in determining the …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in hydraulic conductivity of fractured rocks at a dam foundation during operation

YF Chen, J Zeng, H Shi, Y Wang, R Hu, Z Yang… - Journal of Rock …, 2021 - Elsevier
Characterizing the permeability variation in fractured rocks is important in various
subsurface applications, but how the permeability evolves in the foundation rocks of high …

Investigating the hydrodynamic and biogeochemical evolutions of the hyporheic zone due to large-scale reservoir impoundment

Z Zhou, Z Zhou - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
The impact of large reservoir construction on the basin water cycle, ecological environment,
and engineering safety needs to be studied urgently, especially, the evolution of the …

Novel approach to predicting the spatial distribution of the hydraulic conductivity of a rock mass using convolutional neural networks

M He, J Zhou, P Li, B Yang, H Wang… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
Characterizing the spatial distributions of the hydraulic conductivity of a rock mass is
important in geoscience and engineering disciplines. In this paper, the architecture of …

Prediction of the inertial permeability of a 2D single rough fracture based on geometric information

Z Sun, L Wang, JQ Zhou, C Wang, X Yao, F Gan… - Acta Geotechnica, 2024 - Springer
The apparent permeability of a single rough fracture undergoes complex evolution in a non-
Darcy flow regime, making description of the nonlinear flow challenging. The inertial …