H54C:
Multiscale, Multiphysics Process in Fractured Rock and Modeling of Coupled Transport Phenomena in Fracture Networks III

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Session ID#: 17197

Session Description:
The performance of many subsurface systems and reservoirs strongly depends on fully coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes. Deformation, flow and transport mechanisms during reactive transport, initiation and propagation of fractures and swelling/weathering may all affect the integrity of the subsurface system across the multiple spatial (nm vs. km) and temporal (second vs. centuries) scales. To numerically and experimentally capture these multi-scale, multi-physical interplays is challenging. Additionally, there is a significant interest in minimizing uncertainties through advancing characterization and simulation of coupled processes in fractured rocks with complex fracture networks in subsurface resources. This session provides a forum for researchers to exchange ideas on advancing the state-of-the-art of both the numerical modeling and the experimental testing of these coupled processes in fractured geological media and the associated uncertainty. We welcome contributions on innovative laboratory experimental approaches, advanced simulation approaches, novel numerical algorithms to advance current understanding of coupled processes in fractured rocks.
Primary Convener:  Pania Newell, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Conveners:  Ingrid Tomac, University of California San Diego, Department of Structural Engineering, La Jolla, CA, United States, WaiChing Sun, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States and Rajesh Pawar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth & Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States
Chairs:  Rajesh Pawar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth & Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States, WaiChing Sun, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, NY, United States and Pania Newell, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
OSPA Liaison:  WaiChing Sun, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, NY, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
Index Terms:

1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1859 Rocks: physical properties [HYDROLOGY]
5104 Fracture and flow [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Impact of capillarity and wettability on fracturing in granular media (Invited) (121810)
Ruben Juanes1,2, Mathias Trojer2 and Pietro De Anna3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Resources Laboratory, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland
Preferential flow along fracture planes and its effect on large scale coupled fracture-matrix transport (155858)
Matthias Willmann and Roser Mañé, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
A numerical visit of the relationship between hydraulic and mechanical apertures in natural granite fractures: Effects of heterogeneity and REV scale (157666)
Xiangzhao Kong1, Daniel Vogler2 and Martin O Saar2, (1)ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Coupled transport, mixing and biogeochemical reactions in fractured media: experimental observations and modelling at the Ploemeur fractured rock observatory (172277)
Tanguy Le Borgne1, Olivier Bochet2, Maria Klepikova3, Peter K. Kang4, Alexis Shakas5, Luc Aquilina6, Alexis Dufresne7, Niklas Linde5, Marco Dentz8 and Olivier Bour9, (1)University of Rennes 1, Géosciences Rennes UMR 6118, Rennes, France, (2)University of Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, (3)ETH Zurich, Geological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States, (5)University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (6)UMR CNRS 6118, University of Rennes 1, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes, France, (7)CNRS, Ecobio UMR 6553, Rennes, France, (8)IDAEA-CSIC, Institute of Enviromental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, (9)Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, Rennes, France
Fluid-induced Rock Transformation Modeled via a Two-way Coupled Hydromechanical DEM-network Model (181595)
Ole Ivar Ulven, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and WaiChing Sun, Columbia University, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States
Coupled hydro-mechanical simulations of discrete fluid-driven fracture propagation through fractured rock masses using a lattice modeling approach (195563)
Kunhwi Kim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences, Berkeley, CA, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jonny Rutqvist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jens T Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
Discrete fracture modeling of multiphase flow and hydrocarbon production in fractured shale or low permeability reservoirs (198255)
Yue Hao, Randolph R Settgast, Pengcheng Fu, Andrew F B Tompson, Joseph Morris and Frederick J Ryerson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States

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