A new discrete fracture model is introduced to simulate the steady-state fluid flow in discontinuous porous media. The formulation uses a multi-layered approach to capture the effect of both longitudinal and transverse ...

The presence of natural fractures in a porous medium strongly influences the fluid flow path. The complex geometric characteristics of the fracture network create preferential channels that change the permeability of the ...

The presence of discontinuities such as cracks and faults in porous media can remarkably impact the fluid pressure distribution. This is due to considerable contrast between hydraulic properties of porous matrix and ...

Natural fractures exert a strong influence in the hydraulic behavior of a porous system, thus having a great impact in many areas of geotechnical engineering, such as hydroge-ology and petroleum engineering. This work ...

Many reservoirs consist of fully saturated rock masses containing a very complex natural fracture network. In such cases a decrease in the fracture fluid pressure reduces its aperture due to an increase in the effective ...

In this paper, we study the fluid flow in a deformable porous linear elastic media with a single crack Γ. Fluid exchange between the crack and the surrounding porous media is taken into account through the definition of ...