A Non-Local Model for Fracture Closure on Rough Fracture Faces and Asperities
Geophysics
2017-11-17 v1 General Physics
Abstract
Fractures are ubiquitous in the subsurface. The flow and mechanical properties of these fractures are controlled by its compliance or stiffness. Characterizing fracture compliance is crucial in applications such as fault zone studies, underground CO2 sequestration, nuclear waste repositories and geothermal energy exploitation. In this study, we present a method to determine fracture compliance by modeling fracture closure on asperities using integral transform.
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@article{arxiv.1711.06097,
title = {A Non-Local Model for Fracture Closure on Rough Fracture Faces and Asperities},
author = {HanYi Wang and Mukul. M. Sharma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06097},
year = {2017}
}
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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1710.06464