H44A:
Flow through Fractured and Deformable Porous Media: Coupling Reactive Transport, Mechanical Deformation, and Hydrodynamics I

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Session ID#: 18482

Session Description:
The mechanical and transport properties in fractured and porous media are fundamental to predicting coupled multiphysics processes. Examples include carbon sequestration, unconventional resources recovery, induced seismicity, geothermal recovery, and soil wetting and drying. In geologic formations, coupled thermal, mechanical, chemical and hydrological interactions alter the medium’s transport properties, leading to complex emergent behaviors across a huge range of spatiotemporal scales. In this session, we discuss recent experimental, theoretical, and numerical advances in flow through fractured and deformable porous media, with emphasis on preferential or emergent fluid pathways due to hydrodynamic instabilities, reaction-induced precipitation/dissolution, stress and thermal gradient changes, and/or coupled chemo-mechanical processes. Of particular interest are studies that (1) focus on innovative experimental methods including 3D printing techniques and multi-scale imaging for characterizing multiphase and reactive fluid flow and the associated fluid-rock interactions and (2) expose the underlying pore-scale physics, linking them to effective properties and behavior at larger scales.
Primary Convener:  Ran Holtzman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Conveners:  Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratories, Geomechanics Department, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Lucas Goehring, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Göttingen, Germany and Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Chairs:  Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratories, Geomechanics Department, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Lucas Goehring, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Göttingen, Germany and Ran Holtzman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
OSPA Liaison:  Lucas Goehring, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Göttingen, Germany

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]
1859 Rocks: physical properties [HYDROLOGY]
4430 Complex systems [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Coupled mechanical and geochemical alteration: The role of mineral heterogeneity on evolving fracture permeability (Invited) (129512)
Russell L Detwiler, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
From fractures to conduits: perspectives from three-dimensional simulations (160263)
Tony Ladd1, Vitaliy Starchenko2 and Cameron Marra2, (1)University of Florida, Chemical Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Chemical Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States
Nucleation of Preferential Fluid Pathways in Fractured Rock - Experimental and Numerical Study - (172762)
Michito Shimo, Fukada Geological Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Deformation of a 3D granular media caused by fluid invasion (130674)
Marie-Julie Dalbe, MIT, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Subcritical fracturing of shales under chemically reactive conditions (178138)
Xiaofeng Chen1, Owen A Callahan1, Peter Eichhubl2 and Jon E Olson3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Univ Texas, Austin, TX, United States
Flow Through Cement Fracture Under Geological Carbon Sequestration Conditions: Critical Residence Time as a Unifying Parameter for Fracture Opening or Self-Sealing Behavior (162093)
Jean-Patrick Leopold Brunet, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, Zuleima Karpyn, The Pennsylvania State University, John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, University Park, United States and Dr. Nicolas J Huerta, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Earth Systems Predictability and Resiliency Group, Richland, WA, United States
Modeling of Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes for Bentonite in a Clay-rock Repository for Heat-generating Nuclear Waste (182343)
Hao Xu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jonny Rutqvist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, Liange Zheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, United States and Jens T Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
New Frontier in Probing Fluid Transport in Low-Permeability Geomedia: Applications of Elastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering (188146)
Mei Ding1, Rex Hjelm1 and Aviva J Sussman2, (1)Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

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