From fluid flow to coupled processes in fractured rock: Recent advances and new frontiers

HS Viswanathan, J Ajo‐Franklin… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative predictions of natural and induced phenomena in fractured rock is one of the
great challenges in the Earth and Energy Sciences with far‐reaching economic and …

The role of chemistry in fracture pattern development and opportunities to advance interpretations of geological materials

SE Laubach, RH Lander, LJ Criscenti… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fracture pattern development has been a challenging area of research in the Earth sciences
for more than 100 years. Much has been learned about the spatial and temporal complexity …

[HTML][HTML] Chemo-hydro-mechanical effects of CO2 injection on reservoir and seal rocks: A review on laboratory experiments

A Vafaie, J Cama, JM Soler, IR Kivi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Geological carbon storage is one of the technologies required to arrive at the ambitious yet
realistic net-zero emission target and climate change neutrality. Injected CO 2 in geological …

[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 …

Flow, transport, and reaction in porous media: Percolation scaling, critical‐path analysis, and effective medium approximation

AG Hunt, M Sahimi - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the most important developments in the application of three theoretical tools to
modeling of the morphology of porous media and flow and transport processes in them. One …

Shales at all scales: Exploring coupled processes in mudrocks

AG Ilgen, JE Heath, IY Akkutlu, LT Bryndzia… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fine-grained sedimentary rocks–namely mudrocks, including their laminated fissile variety—
shales–make up about two thirds of all sedimentary rocks in the Earth's crust and a quarter …

The influence of fracture geometry variation on non-Darcy flow in fractures under confining stresses

Y Chen, H Lian, W Liang, J Yang, VP Nguyen… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
To investigate the influence of geometric characteristics of deformable rough fractures under
confining stresses on the behaviors of non-Darcy flow, four fractured sandstone specimens …

Effect of surface morphology on fluid flow in rough fractures: a review

Y Zhang, J Chai - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Fracture surface morphology significantly affects fluid flow in rock fractures and has attracted
considerable attention in many seepage-related fields. Fluid flow in rough-walled fractures is …

[HTML][HTML] A new integrated intelligent computing paradigm for predicting joints shear strength

S Xie, Z Jiang, H Lin, T Ma, K Peng, H Liu, B Liu - Geoscience Frontiers, 2024 - Elsevier
Joints shear strength is a critical parameter during the design and construction of
geotechnical engineering structures. The prevailing models mostly adopt the form of …

Experimental study on the effect of fracture geometric characteristics on the permeability in deformable rough-walled fractures

Y Chen, W Liang, H Lian, J Yang, VP Nguyen - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The fracture geometric characteristics (FGC) have considerable influence on fluid flow in the
fractured rock mass. The present work took experimental approaches to investigate the …