Articles | Volume 54
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-54-149-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-54-149-2020
27 Nov 2020
 | 27 Nov 2020

Clustering, Connectivity and Flow Responses of Deterministic Fractal-Fracture Networks

Ajay K. Sahu and Ankur Roy

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Short summary
Fracture networks are often self-similar and are defined by a fractal dimension. However, two such networks with the same fractal dimension may have subtle differences in their clustering attributes that lead to distinct connectivity and flow behavior. This research shows that rather than the fractal dimension, lacunarity, a parameter quantifying scale-dependent clustering, is a better proxy for fracture connectivity as well as flow responses and, is relatively easy to compute than connectivity.