While permeability scaling of fractured media has been so far studied independently at the fracture‐and network‐scales, we propose a numerical analysis of the combined effect of …
We characterize how different fracture size‐transmissivity relationships influence flow and transport simulations through sparse three‐dimensional discrete fracture networks. Although …
One of the major challenges of simulating flow and transport in the far field of a geologic repository in crystalline host rock is related to reproducing the properties of the fracture …
We develop a continuous time random walk (CTRW) approach for the evolution of Lagrangian velocities in steady heterogeneous flows based on a stochastic relaxation …
The apertures of natural fractures in fractured rock are highly heterogeneous. However, in- fracture aperture variability is often neglected in flow and transport modeling and individual …
We investigate large‐scale particle motion and solute breakthrough in sparse three‐ dimensional discrete fracture networks characterized by power law distributed fracture …
We investigate how the choice of injection mode impacts transport properties in kilometer‐ scale three‐dimensional discrete fracture networks (DFN). The choice of injection mode …
We incorporate observations of real fracture aperture variability observed in laboratory experiments into an ensemble of three‐dimensional discrete fracture network (DFN) …
We study how the interplay between fracture aperture heterogeneity and tracer injection mode controls fluid flow and tracer transport in three‐dimensional (3D) discrete fracture …