Publication
Vertical apertures on the 3D fracture surface Stochastic 3D Navier-Stokes Flow in Self-Affine Fracture Geometries Controlled by Anisotropy and Channeling
Authors: Robert Egert, Fabian Nitschke, Maziar Gholami Korzani, Thomas Kohl
Source: Geophysical Research Letters
Date: April 2021
Abstract: The study uses probabilistic methods to analyze 3D Navier-Stokes flows and compares them with simpler model representations. For the first time, spcific phenomena of flow through rough fractures can be explained.