Difficulties encountered in describing fracture flow using classical fluid flow equations has
led to extensive studies of the roughness effect on fracture flow over the past 70 years …

Effective storage and containment of injected fluids, over a range of spatial and temporal
scales, is reliant upon the sealing capacity of the lithologies overlying geological stores. Low …

Groundwater flow through fractured rocks has been recognized as an important issue in
many geotechnical engineering practices. Several key aspects of fundamental mechanisms …

Fluid‐rock dissolution occurs ubiquitously in geological systems. Surface‐volume scaling is
central to predicting overall dissolution rate R involved in modeling dissolution processes …

The dissolution dynamics of rough channels is a fundamental issue involved in widening
fracture channels (cavity evolution), solution mining, and upscaling of dissolution rate …

Fluid invasion into porous media to displace a more viscous fluid exhibits various
displacement patterns. For such unfavorable displacements, previous works overlooked the …

Key Points We visualize and quantify three distinct dissolution patterns in radial rough
fractures We propose a theoretical model to predict the transitions of dissolution patterns …

Roughness and wettability of the fracture surface have crucial effects on the two-phase flow
properties in many applications involving fractured rock. The immiscible quasi-static …

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 …

The injection of reactive fluid into fractured reservoirs is relevant to many subsurface
processes. During injection, fracture dissolution forms various patterns. Despite its …