Controls on the intrinsic flow properties of mudrock fractures: A review of their importance in subsurface storage

T Phillips, N Kampman, K Bisdom, NDF Inskip… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Fluid flow in rock fractures: From the Navier-Stokes equations to the cubic law

RW Zimmerman, IW Yeo - Geophysical Monograph-American …, 2000 - researchgate.net
The mathematical analysis of the flow of a single-phase Newtonian fluid through a rough-
walled rock fracture is reviewed, starting from the Navier-Stokes equations. By a …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical modeling of the effects of roughness on flow and eddy formation in fractures

S Briggs, BW Karney, BE Sleep - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The effect of roughness on flow in fractures was investigated using lattice Boltzmann method
(LBM). Simulations were conducted for both statistically generated hypothetical fractures …

Pore geometry effects on intrapore viscous to inertial flows and on effective hydraulic parameters

K Chaudhary, MB Cardenas, W Deng… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, the effects of different diverging‐converging pore geometries were
investigated, and the microscale fluid flow and effective hydraulic properties from these …

Solute dispersion in channels with periodically varying apertures

D Bolster, M Dentz, T Le Borgne - Physics of Fluids, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We study solute dispersion in channels with periodically varying apertures. Based on an
approximate analytical solution of the flow equation, we study the impact of the geometry …

Upscaling transport of a reacting solute through a peridocially converging–diverging channel at pre-asymptotic times

NL Sund, D Bolster, C Dawson - Journal of contaminant hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study we extend the Spatial Markov model, which has been successfully used to
upscale conservative transport across a diverse range of porous media flows, to test if it can …

Analytical solution for reactive solute transport considering incomplete mixing within a reference elementary volume

G Chiogna, A Bellin - Water Resources Research, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The laboratory experiments of Gramling et al.(2002) showed that incomplete mixing at the
pore scale exerts a significant impact on transport of reactive solutes and that assuming …

A spatial Markov model for upscaling transport of adsorbing-desorbing solutes

T Sherman, A Paster, G Porta, D Bolster - Journal of contaminant hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Spatial Markov Model (SMM) is an upscaled model with a strong track record in
predicting upscaled behavior of conservative solute transport across hydrologic systems …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling of transport phenomena in porous media using network models

AA Martins, PE Laranjeira, CH Braga… - Progress in Porous …, 2009 - researchgate.net
This article discusses the application of network models to represent the local structure of a
packed bed, and their application in the modeling of a fluid flow and mass transport in a …

Pore‐scale dilution of conservative solutes: An example

J Cao, PK Kitanidis - Water resources research, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
We simulate flow and transport of a conservative nonsorbing tracer in an idealized periodic
pore channel using finite element techniques. The concentration is computed; then the …