1 Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Objective and thesis structure
2 Mathematical expressions for characterizing equivalent permeability of rock fracture networks : a review 2.1 Introduction 2.2 2-D fracture networks 2.3 3-D fracture networks 2.4 Concluding remarks and future works
3 Governing equations of fluid flow in rock fractures 3.1 Continuity equation of fluid flow 3.2 Derivation of Navier-Stokes equation 3.3 Governing equations for fluid flow in fractures 3.4 Derivation of the Cubic law
4 Fluid flow properties at single intersections 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Flow test 4.3 Numerical simulation 4.4 Results and analyses 4.5 Quantification of hydraulic properties in crossed fractures 4.6 Conclusions
5 Nonlinear flow properties in two-dimensional rock fracture networks 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Numerical setup 5.3 Parametric study 5.4 Quantification of nonlinearity for DFNs 5.5 Effect of fracture dead-end on nonlinear flow and particle transport 5.6 Conclusions
6 A fractal model for predicting EFNP (Part 1) 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Fractal characteristics of rock fractures 6.3 A fractal model for permeability estimation 6.4 Results and analyses 6.5 Conclusions ……
7 A fractal model for predicting EFNP (Part 2) 8 A fractal model for predicting EFNP (Part 3) 9 Summary