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Articles | Volume 49
Articles | Volume 49
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-49-77-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-49-77-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 49
03 Sep 2019
 | 03 Sep 2019

On the Density Variability of Poissonian Discrete Fracture Networks, with application to power-law fracture size distributions

Etienne Lavoine, Philippe Davy, Caroline Darcel, and Romain Le Goc

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In this study, we are interested in quantifying natural fracture density variability, at any scale. We develop and numerically validate analytical solutions considering stochastic Discrete Fracture Networks, with application to networks following power-law fracture size distributions. Particularly, we show that for this kind of networks, the scaling of three-dimensional fracture density variability clearly depends on the power-law exponent, but not on the orientation distribution.
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