Groundwater flow through fractured rocks has been recognized as an important issue in
many geotechnical engineering practices. Several key aspects of fundamental mechanisms …

Characterizing the trapped phase in porous media is essential for many engineering
applications, such as enhanced oil recovery, nuclear storage, and geological sequestration …

Fluid flow through geologic porous media is represented by Darcy's law and its inertial and
nonlinear extension, the Forchheimer equation. These relationships equate the product of …

Previous studies pointed out that the hydraulic aperture (bh) is solely dependent on the
geometric features of a fracture, independent of fluid inertia effects. Here we present an …

Fluid flow in rock fractures is described by Darcy's law and its nonlinear extension, the
Forchheimer equation in form of a quadratic polynomial. Since the nonlinearity of the …

Although nonlinear fracture flow and non‐Fickian transport are common in natural settings,
the mechanisms driving and controlling these intertwined phenomena are seldom …

This study experimentally and numerically investigated the influence of the inertial effect of
fluid flow on the non-Darcy coefficient (β). The results showed that the non-Darcy coefficient …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of contact rate on fluid flow through
rock fractures. Different contact rate fracture models are constituted by changing the relative …

Solute transport in unsaturated porous media is of interest in many engineering and
environmental applications. The interplay between small-scale, local forces and the porous …

Water inflow into a tunnel is usually estimated by assuming that the flow follows the linear
Darcy's law. However, fluid flow in fractured-rock aquifers is prone to deviation from Darcy's …