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https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-56-117-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-56-117-2021
16 Nov 2021
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Evaluating Flow in Fractal-Fracture Networks: Effect of Variable Aperture

Ajay K. Sahu and Ankur Roy

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Flow patterns in fractal-fracture networks where the apertures scale as a power-law and a set of dominant sub-networks generated from a given fractal-fracture map by systematically removing the smaller aperture fractures is investigated. The recovery curves and TOFs of each network and its dominant sub-networks at different time steps are compared. Results show that in the case of such scaled aperture fractal-fracture systems, smaller fractures do not significantly contribute to the fluid flow.