Hydrologic issues associated with nuclear waste repositories

CF Tsang, I Neretnieks, Y Tsang - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Significant progress in hydrology, especially in subsurface flow and solute transport, has
been made over the last 35 years because of sustained interest in underground nuclear …

Effect of surface morphology on fluid flow in rough fractures: a review

Y Zhang, J Chai - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Fracture surface morphology significantly affects fluid flow in rock fractures and has attracted
considerable attention in many seepage-related fields. Fluid flow in rough-walled fractures is …

Evaluation of Forchheimer equation coefficients for non-Darcy flow in deformable rough-walled fractures

YF Chen, JQ Zhou, SH Hu, R Hu, CB Zhou - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
This study focuses on experimental evaluation of the Forchheimer equation coefficients for
non-Darcy flow in deformable rough-walled fractures. Water flow tests through twelve granite …

Nonlinear flow behavior at low Reynolds numbers through rough-walled fractures subjected to normal compressive loading

JQ Zhou, SH Hu, S Fang, YF Chen, CB Zhou - International Journal of Rock …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study experimentally investigated the nonlinear flow characteristics at low Reynolds
number through rough-walled fractures subjected to a wide range of confining pressures …

Transient pulse test and morphological analysis of single rock fractures

Y Zhao, L Zhang, W Wang, J Tang, H Lin… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Transient pulse tests were performed on single rock fractures at different confining
pressures. A new data analysis method based on polynomial fitting was introduced to …

Effect of shear-induced contact area and aperture variations on nonlinear flow behaviors in fractal rock fractures

C Wang, R Liu, Y Jiang, G Wang, H Luan - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study experimentally analyzes the nonlinear flow characteristics and channelization of
fluid through rough-walled fractures during the shear process using a shear-flow …

The influence of fracture geometry variation on non-Darcy flow in fractures under confining stresses

Y Chen, H Lian, W Liang, J Yang, VP Nguyen… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
To investigate the influence of geometric characteristics of deformable rough fractures under
confining stresses on the behaviors of non-Darcy flow, four fractured sandstone specimens …

Experimental study on the effect of fracture geometric characteristics on the permeability in deformable rough-walled fractures

Y Chen, W Liang, H Lian, J Yang, VP Nguyen - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The fracture geometric characteristics (FGC) have considerable influence on fluid flow in the
fractured rock mass. The present work took experimental approaches to investigate the …

Estimating hydraulic conductivity of fractured rocks from high‐pressure packer tests with an Izbash's law‐based empirical model

YF Chen, SH Hu, R Hu, CB Zhou - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
High‐pressure packer test (HPPT) is an enhanced constant head packer test for
characterizing the permeability of fractured rocks under high‐pressure groundwater flow …

Nonlinear flow behavior through rough-walled rock fractures: the effect of contact area

F **ong, Q Jiang, Z Ye, X Zhang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2018 - Elsevier
A computed scanning technology was applied to measure fracture tomography, and three-
dimensional fracture meshes were established. Water flow experiments and simulations on …