In the past few years, micromodels have become a useful tool for visualizing flow phenomena in porous media with pore structures, e.g., the multifluid dynamics in soils or rocks with fractures in natural geomaterials. Micromodels fabricated using glass or silicon substrates incur high material cost; in particular, the microfabrication-facility cost for making a glass or silicon-based micromold ...

Numerous laboratory and field experiments suggest that electrical properties of fractured rocks may provide critical information regarding the topological properties of the underlying fracture networks. However, a lack of numerical studies dedicated to realistic fractured media prevents us from assessing, in a systematic manner, the relationships between electrical and topological properties in...

Borehole waves are strongly affected by adjacent porous zones or by fractures intersecting the borehole. A theoretical description for both porous and fracture zones is possible based on the introduction of an effective borehole fluid bulk modulus, characterizing the wave attenuation via borehole wall impedance. This impedance can be calculated for both porous and fracture zones adjacent to the...

The main aim of this research was to find the mechanism for the failure of the CoCrMo porous nano-composite by characterizing microstructural changes and fractured surface after compression test. For this purpose, porous nano-composites were prepared with the addition of bioactive glass nano-powder to Co-base alloy with 22.5% porosity by the combination of space-holder and powder metallurgy tec...

abstract bottom intake is one of the most appropriate systems for diverting discharge in steep rivers. bottom intake with porous media is a new system of diverting discharge which can be replaced by bottom rack intakes. to investigate the hydraulic flow characteristics on diverted discharge of this intake, an experimental model was designed in which the inflow, diverted discharge and remained f...

in petroleum production, produced water re-injection (pwri) has earned much interest among disposal methods of the produced water. however, presence of the contaminants in the produced waters usually results in formation damage in well bores and their surrounding fracture systems. in the present study, modeling of external cake formation on a fracture in unsteady-state conditions is discussed. ...

Abstract In this work, the problem of brittle fracture in a fluid‐saturated porous material is extended by considering non‐isothermal states sample. The temperature field will affect two aspects: 1) Temperature‐dependent parameters, such as elasticity modulus (E) and critical energy release rate (Gc). 2) Thermal expansion due to thermo‐mechanical volume coupling. hydraulic fracturing, we furthe...

The problem of dispersion, advection and adsorption of a tracer in a double-porosity reservoir due to tracer injection in a well with a steady, radially divergent flow field was solved for the case of constant tracer concentration in the injection well. Longitudinal dispersion and advection was assumed to dominate transport in the fracture system and tracer diffusion and adsorption klas assumed...

We investigate the discretization of Darcy flow through fractured porous media on general polyhedral meshes. We consider a hybrid dimensional model, invoking a complex network of planar fractures. The model accounts for matrix-fracture interactions and fractures acting either as drains or as barriers, i.e. we have to deal with pressure discontinuities at matrix-fracture interfaces. The numerica...

Due to the existence of pores in fracture surface, permeability pore-fracture media is more complicated, and its law mechanism are worthy an in-depth study. The rough surface this paper obtained by 3D laser scanning technology, taken a small part middle area carry out finite element simulation single seepage, studied distribution flow velocity fields nonlinear characteristics changing inlet rat...