H21C:
Development of Fractured Rock Hydrogeology Through the Witherspoon Era: Discrete Fractures to Complex Systems and Validation I Posters

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Session ID#: 29371

Session Description:
We will discuss the scientific and practical results of theoretical, numerical modeling, and field and laboratory studies of fluid dynamics and reactive chemical transport in the unsaturated and saturated zones, related to petroleum and geothermal reservoirs, environmental management and remediation, mining, gas storage, andradioactive waste isolation in underground repositories. The session goals are: 1) discussion of how the science has evolved from the study of discrete fractures to the recognition that we are dealing with very complex systems, 2) show how the process of verification and calibration of various concepts and models leads to the point of developing true validation procedures based on blind predictions against well-designed field and laboratory experiments, 3) exposition of model development capable of accounting for intrinsic multiscale complexity of flow, transport or mechanical modeling into discrete fracture networks. We encourage data-driven case studies, theoretical or conceptual modeling, including numerical developments for DFN models.
Primary Convener:  John E. Gale, Fracflow Consultants Inc, St John's, NL, Canada
Conveners:  Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Philippe Davy, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France and Boris Faybishenko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Chairs:  Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and John E. Gale, Fracflow Consultants Inc, St John's, NL, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  John E. Gale, Fracflow Consultants Inc, St John's, NL, Canada
Index Terms:

1805 Computational hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Insights to Engineered Geothermal System Performance Using Gringarten-Witherspoon-Ohnishi Analytical Solutions and Fracture Network Models (294471)
Thomas Doe, Golder Associates, Inc., Redmond, WA, United States, Robert McLaren, Golder Associates, Cambridge, ON, Canada and Aleta Finilla, Golder Associates, Redmond, WA, United States
A Discrete Fracture Network Model with Stress-Driven Nucleation and Growth (231711)
Etienne Lavoine1, Caroline Darcel1, Raymond Munier2 and Philippe Davy3, (1)Itasca Consultants SAS, Lyon, France, (2)Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden, (3)CNRS Geosciences Rennes, Rennes, France
Progress on Discrete Fracture Network models with implications on the predictions of permeability and flow channeling structure (232147)
Caroline Darcel1, Philippe Davy2, Romain Le Goc1, Julien Maillot3 and Jan-Olof Selroos4, (1)Itasca Consultants SAS, Lyon, France, (2)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (3)Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, (4)Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden
The Practical Application of Aqueous Geochemistry in Mapping Groundwater Flow Systems in Fractured Rock Masses (235972)
Glenn Bursey, Fracflow Consultants Inc, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, Eunjeong Seok, Fracflow Consultants Inc., St. John's, NL, Canada and John E. Gale, Fracflow Consultants Inc, St John's, NL, Canada
Core Flooding Experiments Combined with X-rays and Micro-PET Imaging as a Tool to Calculate Fluid Saturations in a Fracture (244325)
Meritxell Gran, Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, Christopher Zahasky, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, Charlotte Garing, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Ryan M Pollyea, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geoscience, Blacksburg, United States and Sally M Benson, Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Internal fracture heterogeneity in discrete fracture network modelling: Effect of correlation length and textures with connected and disconnected permeability field (244480)
Andrew Frampton, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Liangchao Zou, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden
Fundamental Flux Equations for Fracture-Matrix Interactions with Linear Diffusion (265660)
Curtis M Oldenburg1, Quanlin Zhou1, Jonny Rutqvist2 and Jens T Birkholzer3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, United States
Predictions of first passage times in sparse discrete fracture networks using graph-based reductions (278104)
Jeffrey Hyman1, Aric Hagberg1, Gowri Srinivasan1, Jamaludin Mohd-Yusof1 and Hari Selvi Viswanathan2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States
Representation of the crystalline rock matrix as a micro-Discrete Fracture Network: concepts and application (210551)
Paolo Trinchero1, Martin Löfgren2, Dirk Bosbach3, Guido Deismann3, Hedieh Ebrahimi1, Bjorn Gylling4, Jorge Molinero1, Ignasi Puigdomenech4, Jan-Olof Selroos5, Magnus Sidborn6 and Urban Svensson7, (1)Amphos 21, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Niressa, Solute transport division, Norsborg, Sweden, (3)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, (4)SKB Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management, Stockholm, Sweden, (5)Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden, (6)Kemakta Konsult, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)Computer-aided Fluid Engineering AB (CFE AB), Karlskrona, Sweden
DFN Modeling for the Safety Case of the Final Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Olkiluoto, Finland (219634)
Outi Vanhanarkaus, Posiva Oy, Eurajoki, Finland
The effect of local flows in dead-end fractures on the flow and solute transport in 3D discrete fracture networks (219864)
Chuen-Fa Ni1, I-Hsien Lee2, Song-Di Fong3, Wei-Ci Li4 and Chi-Ping Lin2, (1)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Applied Geology, Taoyuan, Taiwan, (2)National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, (3)National Central University, Zhungli, Taiwan, (4)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan

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