H53A:
Coupled Processes in Fractured Media Across Scales: Experimental and Modeling Advances I


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Session ID#: 61982

Session Description:
Strong coupling between processes (hydro-mechanical-chemical-biological-thermo) occur in fractured geological formations across a wide range of time and length scales. Understanding the interplay of these processes is critical for numerous subsurface applications including petroleum and geothermal reservoir management, environmental remediation, carbon sequestration, and long-term radioactive waste isolation in underground repositories. This session focuses on recent progress in experimental, numerical and theoretical investigations of coupled processes in fractured media at various scales (from single fracture to fracture network scale). We encourage submissions related to (1) experiments and field observations of processes in fractured media, e.g., non-Fickian transport; colloid and bacteria transport; mixing and reaction; fluid/mineral interactions; biofilm formation; and coupled flow and geomechanics, and (2) new theoretical and numerical modeling approaches that provide mechanistic understanding and predictive capability of physical processes in fractured media across scales, e.g., direct simulation at the single fracture scale, discrete fracture network modeling, multi-scale modeling, and upscaling.
Primary Convener:  Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Philippe Davy, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, Jan-Olof Selroos, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden and Peter K. Kang, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  Peter K. Kang, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States and Jeffrey Hyman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jan-Olof Selroos, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), Solna, Sweden
Index Terms:

1805 Computational hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1869 Stochastic hydrology [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Stress effects on fluid flow and solute transport in single rough-walled rock fractures (Invited) (408986)
Liangchao Zou1,2 and Vladimir Cvetkovic1, (1)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden
Mineral precipitation in fractures: Relative length-scales of aperture and mineral heterogeneity control transport-property evolution (465185)
Trevor Jones, Dudek, Encinitas, CA, United States and Russell L Detwiler, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Coupled Electro-hydrodynamic Transport in Geological Fractures (466901)
Yves Meheust, University of Rennes, Geosciences, CNRS, UMR 6118, Rennes Cedex, France, Uddipta Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Gandhinagar, India and Tanguy Le Borgne, University of Rennes 1, Géosciences Rennes UMR 6118, Rennes, France
Characterization of Choked Flow under Subsonic to Supersonic CO2 Transport in Geological Micro-Fracture (388767)
Jong Gil Park and Weon Shik Han, Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Science, Seoul, South Korea
Comparison of numerical models of particle swarm evolution in fractures (404184)
Ludwig C. Nitsche, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chemical Engineering, Chicago, IL, United States, Chven A Mitchell, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Laura J Pyrak-Nolte, Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Department of Earth, Atomospheric and Planetary Sciences; Lyles School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, United States; Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Viscous Fingering in Fractured Porous Media (372695)
Runar Lie Berge1, Inga Berre2, Eirik Keilegavlen2 and Jan M Nordbotten3, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Department of Mathematics, Bergen, Norway, (3)University of Bergen, Mathematics, Bergen, Norway
Methodology for Seamlessly Coupling Discrete Fracture Network and 3D Continuum Models of Flow and Transport in Fractured Porous Media (420771)
Carl W Gable, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Nataliia Makedonska, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Rajesh Pawar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, John P Ortiz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hanover, United States and Dylan R Harp, The Freshwater Trust, Portland, United States
Gas Migration Experiments and Hydrologic Effects of Explosions in Fractured Granite (365544)
Sofia Teresa Avendaño, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Anastasia F Stroujkova, Weston Geophysical Corporation Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, Dylan R Harp, The Freshwater Trust, Portland, United States, Melinda Horne, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, Mark Austin Person, New Mexico Tech, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Socorro, United States, Jesus D. Gomez-Velez, Vanderbilt University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nashville, TN, United States, Eugene Gorman, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Charles R Carrigan, Stratify LLC, Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States

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