Dynamics of Fluids in Fractured Rock
Published on 1. January 2000
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Hardback
400 pages
978-0-87590-980-6 (ISBN)
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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 122.
Among the current problems that hydrogeologists face, perhaps there is none as challenging as the characterization of fractured rock. Within hydrogeological systems, general issues concerning groundwater flow and environmental remediation cannot be resolved in any practical manner prior to investigating the nature and vagaries of the fracture networks themselves. Comparable difficulties arise when developing economic programs for the exploitation of oil, gas, and geothermal reservoirs in fractured rock. Equal, if not greater, difficulties have commanded our attention relatively recently in regard to the storing of spent fuel generated by nuclear power plants. For example, if we are to isolate spent nuclear fuel in underground rock systems, we must construct a repository to protect the biosphere from contamination by radioactivity while subjecting the total rock system to a significant thermal field for many thousands of years. Predicting the behavior of a waste repository under such conditions, especially in fractured rock, is a formidable task.
Among the current problems that hydrogeologists face, perhaps there is none as challenging as the characterization of fractured rock. Within hydrogeological systems, general issues concerning groundwater flow and environmental remediation cannot be resolved in any practical manner prior to investigating the nature and vagaries of the fracture networks themselves. Comparable difficulties arise when developing economic programs for the exploitation of oil, gas, and geothermal reservoirs in fractured rock. Equal, if not greater, difficulties have commanded our attention relatively recently in regard to the storing of spent fuel generated by nuclear power plants. For example, if we are to isolate spent nuclear fuel in underground rock systems, we must construct a repository to protect the biosphere from contamination by radioactivity while subjecting the total rock system to a significant thermal field for many thousands of years. Predicting the behavior of a waste repository under such conditions, especially in fractured rock, is a formidable task.
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Boris Faybishenko is a Staff Scientist in the Hydrogeology Department, Earth Sciences Division of the E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Content
Preface
Boris Faybishenko and Sally M. Benson ix
Investigations at Berkeley on Fracture Flow in Rocks: From the Parallel Plate Model to Chaotic Systems
Paul A. Witherspoon 1
Field Testing
A Brief Survey of Hydraulic Tests in Fractured Rocks
Paul A. Hsieh 59
Unresolved Problems in Vadose Zone Hydrology and Contaminant Transport
William A. Jury and Zhi Wang 67
Geostatistical, Type-Curve, and Inverse Analyses of Pneumatic Injection Tests in Unsaturated
Fractured Tuffs at the Apache Leap Research Site Near Superior, Arizona
Guoliang Chen, Walter A. Illman, Dick L. Thompson, VelimirV Vessel inov, and Shlomo P. Neuman 73
Estimation of the Heterogeneity of Fracture Permeability by Simultaneous Modeling of
Multiple Air-Injection Tests in Partially Saturated Fractured Tuff
Y. W. Tsang, K. Huang, and G. S. Bodvarsson 99
Estimation of Regional Recharge and Travel Time Through the Unsaturated Zone in Arid Climates
Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, Joseph A. Hevesi, Frank DAgnese, and Claudia Flint 115
Spatial and Temporal Instabilities in Water Flow Through Variably Saturated Fractured Basalt
on a One-Meter Field Scale
Robert K. Podgorney Thomas R. Wood, Boris Faybishenko, and Thomas M. Stoops 129
Laboratory Testing
Overview of Preferential Flow in Unsaturated Fractures
Grace W. Su, Jil T Geller, Karsten Pruess, and James Hunt 147
Fracture-Matrix Flow: Quantification and Visualization Using X-Ray Computerized Tomography
A. S. Grader, M. Balzarini, F Radaelli, G. Capasso, and A. Pellegrino 157
Role of Fracture Geometry in the Evolution of Flow Paths Under Stress
S. Gentier, D. Hopkins, and J. Riss 169
Fracture Network Models
Predicting Hydrology of Fractured Rock Masses from Geology
Paul R. La Pointe 185
Fracture Spatial Density and the Anisotropic Connectivity of Fracture Networks
Carl E. Renshaw 203
Modeling Flow and Transport
Fluid Flow in Rock Fractures: From the Navier-Stokes Equations to the Cubic Law
Robert W. Zimmerman and In-Wook Yeo 213
Multiphase Flow in Fractured Rocks-Some Lessons Learned from Mathematical Models
Karsten Pruess 225
Physical Considerations in the Upscaling of Immiscible Displacements in a Fractured Medium
Y. C Yortsos 235
Mixed Discrete-Continuum Models: A Summary of Experiences in Test Interpretation
and Model Prediction
Jesus Carrera and Lurdes Martinez-Landa 251
A Discrete-Fracture Boundary Integral Approach to Simulating Coupled Energy and
Moisture Transport in a Fractured Porous Medium
Stuart Stothoffand Dani Or 267
Critique of Dual Continuum Formulations of Multicomponent Reactive Transport in Fractured Porous Media
Peter C Lichtner 281
On the Effective Continuum Method for Modeling Multiphase Flow, Multicomponent
Transport, and Heat Transfer in Fractured Rock
Yu-ShuWu 299
Effective-Porosity and Dual-Porosity Approaches to Solute Transport in the Saturated Zone
at Yucca Mountain: Implications for Repository Performance Assessment
Bill W. Arnold, Hubao Zhang, and Alva M. Parsons 313
Radionuclide Transport in the Unsaturated Zone at Yucca Mountain: Numerical Model
and Preliminary Field Observations
Bruce A. Robinson and Gilles Y Bussod 323
Isotopic Methods
Using Environmental Tracers to Constrain Flow Parameters in Fractured Rock Aquifers:
Clare Valley, South Australia
Peter G. Cook and Craig T. Simmons 337
Use of Chlorine-36 Data to Evaluate Fracture Flow and Transport Models at
Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Andrew Wolfsberg, Katherine Campbell, and June Fabryka-Martin 349
Geothermal Reservoirs
Pressure Interference Tests in a Fractured Geothermal Reservoir: Oguni Geothermal Field,
Northern Kyushu, Japan
Sabodh K. Garg and Shigetaka Nakanishi 363
Evaluation of Geothermal Well Behavior Using Inverse Modeling
Stefan Finsterle, Grimur Bjdrnsson, Karsten Pruess, and Alfredo Battistelli 377
Remediation in Fractured Systems
Basic Research Strategies for Resolving Remediation Needs in Contaminated Fractured Media
R M. Jardine, S. C. Brooks, G. V. Wilson, and W. E. Sanford 389
Boris Faybishenko and Sally M. Benson ix
Investigations at Berkeley on Fracture Flow in Rocks: From the Parallel Plate Model to Chaotic Systems
Paul A. Witherspoon 1
Field Testing
A Brief Survey of Hydraulic Tests in Fractured Rocks
Paul A. Hsieh 59
Unresolved Problems in Vadose Zone Hydrology and Contaminant Transport
William A. Jury and Zhi Wang 67
Geostatistical, Type-Curve, and Inverse Analyses of Pneumatic Injection Tests in Unsaturated
Fractured Tuffs at the Apache Leap Research Site Near Superior, Arizona
Guoliang Chen, Walter A. Illman, Dick L. Thompson, VelimirV Vessel inov, and Shlomo P. Neuman 73
Estimation of the Heterogeneity of Fracture Permeability by Simultaneous Modeling of
Multiple Air-Injection Tests in Partially Saturated Fractured Tuff
Y. W. Tsang, K. Huang, and G. S. Bodvarsson 99
Estimation of Regional Recharge and Travel Time Through the Unsaturated Zone in Arid Climates
Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, Joseph A. Hevesi, Frank DAgnese, and Claudia Flint 115
Spatial and Temporal Instabilities in Water Flow Through Variably Saturated Fractured Basalt
on a One-Meter Field Scale
Robert K. Podgorney Thomas R. Wood, Boris Faybishenko, and Thomas M. Stoops 129
Laboratory Testing
Overview of Preferential Flow in Unsaturated Fractures
Grace W. Su, Jil T Geller, Karsten Pruess, and James Hunt 147
Fracture-Matrix Flow: Quantification and Visualization Using X-Ray Computerized Tomography
A. S. Grader, M. Balzarini, F Radaelli, G. Capasso, and A. Pellegrino 157
Role of Fracture Geometry in the Evolution of Flow Paths Under Stress
S. Gentier, D. Hopkins, and J. Riss 169
Fracture Network Models
Predicting Hydrology of Fractured Rock Masses from Geology
Paul R. La Pointe 185
Fracture Spatial Density and the Anisotropic Connectivity of Fracture Networks
Carl E. Renshaw 203
Modeling Flow and Transport
Fluid Flow in Rock Fractures: From the Navier-Stokes Equations to the Cubic Law
Robert W. Zimmerman and In-Wook Yeo 213
Multiphase Flow in Fractured Rocks-Some Lessons Learned from Mathematical Models
Karsten Pruess 225
Physical Considerations in the Upscaling of Immiscible Displacements in a Fractured Medium
Y. C Yortsos 235
Mixed Discrete-Continuum Models: A Summary of Experiences in Test Interpretation
and Model Prediction
Jesus Carrera and Lurdes Martinez-Landa 251
A Discrete-Fracture Boundary Integral Approach to Simulating Coupled Energy and
Moisture Transport in a Fractured Porous Medium
Stuart Stothoffand Dani Or 267
Critique of Dual Continuum Formulations of Multicomponent Reactive Transport in Fractured Porous Media
Peter C Lichtner 281
On the Effective Continuum Method for Modeling Multiphase Flow, Multicomponent
Transport, and Heat Transfer in Fractured Rock
Yu-ShuWu 299
Effective-Porosity and Dual-Porosity Approaches to Solute Transport in the Saturated Zone
at Yucca Mountain: Implications for Repository Performance Assessment
Bill W. Arnold, Hubao Zhang, and Alva M. Parsons 313
Radionuclide Transport in the Unsaturated Zone at Yucca Mountain: Numerical Model
and Preliminary Field Observations
Bruce A. Robinson and Gilles Y Bussod 323
Isotopic Methods
Using Environmental Tracers to Constrain Flow Parameters in Fractured Rock Aquifers:
Clare Valley, South Australia
Peter G. Cook and Craig T. Simmons 337
Use of Chlorine-36 Data to Evaluate Fracture Flow and Transport Models at
Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Andrew Wolfsberg, Katherine Campbell, and June Fabryka-Martin 349
Geothermal Reservoirs
Pressure Interference Tests in a Fractured Geothermal Reservoir: Oguni Geothermal Field,
Northern Kyushu, Japan
Sabodh K. Garg and Shigetaka Nakanishi 363
Evaluation of Geothermal Well Behavior Using Inverse Modeling
Stefan Finsterle, Grimur Bjdrnsson, Karsten Pruess, and Alfredo Battistelli 377
Remediation in Fractured Systems
Basic Research Strategies for Resolving Remediation Needs in Contaminated Fractured Media
R M. Jardine, S. C. Brooks, G. V. Wilson, and W. E. Sanford 389