1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Objective and thesis structure
2 Mathematical expressions for characterizing equivalent permeability of rock fracture networks : a review
2.1 Introduction
2.2 2-D fracture networks
2.3 3-D fracture networks
2.4 Concluding remarks and future works
3 Governing equations of fluid flow in rock fractures
3.1 Continuity equation of fluid flow
3.2 Derivation of Navier-Stokes equation
3.3 Governing equations for fluid flow in fractures
3.4 Derivation of the Cubic law
4 Fluid flow properties at single intersections
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Flow test
4.3 Numerical simulation
4.4 Results and analyses
4.5 Quantification of hydraulic properties in crossed fractures
4.6 Conclusions
5 Nonlinear flow properties in two-dimensional rock fracture networks
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Numerical setup
5.3 Parametric study
5.4 Quantification of nonlinearity for DFNs
5.5 Effect of fracture dead-end on nonlinear flow and particle transport
5.6 Conclusions
6 A fractal model for predicting EFNP (Part 1)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Fractal characteristics of rock fractures
6.3 A fractal model for permeability estimation
6.4 Results and analyses
6.5 Conclusions
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7 A fractal model for predicting EFNP (Part 2)
8 A fractal model for predicting EFNP (Part 3)
9 Summary
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