Geomechanical and discrete fracture networks in Thomas et al. 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (NERC Grant NE/L000660/1)
Data supporting 'Effective permeability tensors of three-dimensional numerically grown geomechanical discrete fracture networks with evolving geometry and mechanical apertures', submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. Authors: Robin N Thomas (corresponding,
robin.thomas11@imperial.ac.uk
), Adriana Paluszny, Robert W Zimmerman. Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London. Contents: For each GDFN, the geometry at each growth step. Additionally, for GDFN E, the data shown in the paper (aperture and flow distributions, figures 6 and 7) are provided, including the displacement for the mechanical case, and pressure distributions which were not shown in the manuscript. For the two SDFN sets, the geometry of the four datasets shown in figures 4 and 5 are provided. Notes: - The geometry files are provided in the .3dm format, Rhinocerous' native format (https://www.rhino3d.com/). A free trial of Rhinocerous can be used to explore the files, and can convert them to a range of other CAD file types. - VTK files can be viewed using free software such as Paraview (https://www.paraview.org/). These contain the meshes. - Fracture surface areas reported in the paper are derived from the mesh, rather than the geometry. The mesh approximates the geometry leading to a different surface area than those measured in the geometry (3dm) files. - The SDFN datasets are shown before trimming the parts of fractures which are outside the domain. These parts are trimmed when they are imported to ICGT.
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- Geomechanics
- Permeability
- NGDC Deposited Data
- Finite element analysis
- Fracture analysis
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- 2020-01-09
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- Datasets are generated using the Imperial College Geomechanics Toolkit (ICGT). The following papers describe the method: Thomas, Paluszny & Zimmerman 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (under review) Thomas, Paluszny & Zimmerman 2020, Computers and Geotechnics (in press) Salimzadeh, S., Paluszny, A., Nick, H. M., & Zimmerman, R. W. (2018). A three-dimensional coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical model for deformable fractured geothermal systems. Geothermics, 71, 212–224 Paluszny, A., & Zimmerman, R. W. (2013). Numerical fracture growth modeling using smooth surface geometric deformation. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 108, 19–36 Paluszny, A., & Zimmerman, R. W. (2011). Numerical simulation of multiple 3D fracture propagation using arbitrary meshes. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 200(9–12), 953–966
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- 2024-04-17
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