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

  • LIU Hua-Mei ,
  • WANG Ming-Yu ,
  • SONG Xian-Feng
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  • Center for Water System Security & College of Resources and Environment, Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received date: 2011-05-09

  Revised date: 2012-04-17

  Online published: 2013-01-15

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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.

Cite this article

LIU Hua-Mei , WANG Ming-Yu , SONG Xian-Feng . Stepwise approach for identifying pairwise fracture intersections in 3D fracture networks[J]. Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013 , 30(1) : 24 -32 . DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.1002-1175.2013.01.005

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