Significant progress has been achieved on radionuclide transport in fractured rocks due to
worldwide urgent needs for geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) …

It is believed that underground longwall mining usually produces fractures in the
surrounding rocks. On the one hand, mining‐induced fractures not only degrade the strength …

This paper proposes an image-based method for automated rock fracture segmentation and
fracture trace quantification. It is integrated using a CNN-based model named FraSegNet, a …

Creating an open, connected fracture by hydraulic stimulation is vital to heat mining in an
enhanced geothermal system (EGS). The existence of natural fractures, which seriously …

Discrete fracture and matrix modeling of coupled flow and geomechanics is instrumental for
understanding flow in fractured media for various geoengineering applications such as …

Mining engineering with layered structures often obtains extensive geological data to ensure
reliability of mining operations. Effectively utilizing these data to characterize the spatial …

In a low permeability formation, connectivity of natural and induced fractures determines
overall hydraulic diffusivity in fluid flow through this formation and defines effective rock …

Fractures rarely occur individually but more usually as networks of numerous fractures
whose arrangement, abundance, and interaction control the mechanical and transport …

Accurate simulation of flow behaviors in fractured porous media is challenging. We present
a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approximation and continuous Galerkin (CG) approximation …

Understanding the subsurface heat transmission together with thermal-hydro (TH) coupling
process in fractured rock mass is essential to the heat mining from enhanced geothermal …