Fracture Flow Modeling

Philipp Blum (1), Paul Bons (2), Janos Urai (3), Conny Zeeb (1)

(1) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(2) Structural Geology, University of Tübingen
(3) Structural Geology, RWTH Aachen

Motivation:

• study of the complex dynamics of vein networks in time and space
• vein network analysis and generation using fractal and power-law statistics
• fracture flow modeling in small- and large-scale discrete fracture networks

    
Low-density discrete fracture network (25m*25m) with the different sampled block sizes for the REV-analysis (Blum 2004)