From Fluid Flow to Coupled Processes in Fractured Rock: Recent Advances and New Frontiers
Los Alamos National Laboratory · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · +4 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract Quantitative predictions of natural and induced phenomena in fractured rock is one of the great challenges in the Earth and Energy Sciences with far‐reaching economic and environmental impacts. Fractures occupy a very small volume of a subsurface formation but often dominate fluid flow, solute transport and mechanical deformation behavior. They play a central role in CO 2 sequestration, nuclear waste disposal, hydrogen storage, geothermal energy production, nuclear nonproliferation, and hydrocarbon extraction. These applications require predictions of fracture‐dependent quantities of interest such as CO 2 leakage rate, hydrocarbon production, radionuclide plume migration, and seismicity; to be useful,…
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11Topics & keywords
- Geothermal gradient
- Geology
- Fracture (geology)
- Fluid dynamics
- Radioactive waste
- Geophysics
- Petroleum engineering
- Mechanics