期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES
卷 97, 期 -, 页码 33-45出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2017.06.001
关键词
Rough-walled rock fractures; Shear; Contact spots; Nonlinear fracture flow; Eddy flow; Effective transmissivity
资金
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201208420602]
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Mountain Geological Hazards of Zhejiang Province, China [PCMGH-2016-Y-01]
Nonlinear flow in 3D rough-walled rock fractures is simulated by solving the Navier-Stokes equations. The emphasis is on the impact of shear-caused aperture changes (variable apertures and asperity contacts) and flow conditions (inertial term) upon nonlinear flow behavior. In order to compare shear effects, two 3D fracture models, with and without shear, were established with identical initial rough-walled surfaces topographies of a realistic rock sample. Five groups of simulations with different inflow boundary conditions of flowrates/Reynolds numbers (Re) were conducted to demonstrate shear-enhanced nonlinearity of flow fields and limitations of local cubic law (LCL) approach. The flow results clearly show channeling flow along the preferential paths, transverse flow around the contact spots, and eddy flows behind contact spots with increasing Re, which cannot be observed in 2D models. The effective transmissivity of the 3D fracture model was calculated from the modeling results of velocity and pressure fields. The results showed that the effective transmissivity is a function of local apertures with important uncertainties even when Re is small (i.e. Re = 0.4 in this study), thus the validity of the transmissivity evaluation using LCL approach for nonlinear flow in 3D rough-walled rock fractures is questionable.
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