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›› 2013, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (1): 24-32.DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.1002-1175.2013.01.005

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Stepwise approach for identifying pairwise fracture intersections in 3D fracture networks

LIU Hua-Mei, WANG Ming-Yu, SONG Xian-Feng   

  1. Center for Water System Security & College of Resources and Environment, Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2011-05-09 Revised:2012-04-17 Online:2013-01-15
  • Supported by:

    Supported by National Science Foundation of China (40672172,40972166),Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program) (2010CB428804), the Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment(2009ZX07212-003),and the Major Science and Technology Program of Beijing (D09040903700801)

Abstract:

Numerical computation for flow and solute transport in fractured rocks will be very efficient if only the connected fractures are kept. An approach is proposed for progressively identifying pairwise fracture intersections in 3D stochastically distributed fracture networks based on spatial indexing. By comparing the simulation results obtained using the proposed stepwise approach and the traditional exhaustion algorithm, we observed that, the proposed approach is much more effective.

Key words: spatial indexing, 3D stochastically distributed fracture networks, pairwise fracture intersection identifications, stepwise approach

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