H52A:
Advances in Hydrological Characterization of Flow and Transport in Fractured Media: Numerical and Experimental Observations II

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Session ID#: 34294

Session Description:
Flow and transport in fractured media is often poorly understood because hydraulic conductivity and other properties are often strongly dependent on the geometric structure of the fracture surfaces, and can vary by orders of magnitude over short distances. Further, the strong coupling between geochemical reactions and mechanical stresses alters the geometry and strength of the rock making it difficult to predict the evolution of flow and transport through the fractured media. This session integrates hydrology and geophysics to promote novel advances in the characterization and predictions of flow and transport in fractured rocks, including reactive transport. A better understanding of these processes is crucial in many subsurface applications spanning from water resource management, environmental remediation, enhanced energy production strategies, and induced seismicity. We seek contributions that explore coupled processes within fractures and welcome innovative modeling, characterization, and monitoring approaches based on laboratory and theoretical approaches.
Primary Convener:  Karl Bandilla, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Jean E Elkhoury, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, Cambridge, United States, Judy Robinson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Trevor Jones, Dudek, Encinitas, CA, United States
Chairs:  Jean E Elkhoury, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, Cambridge, United States, Karl Bandilla, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Judy Robinson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Trevor Jones, Dudek, Encinitas, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Karl Bandilla, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1009 Geochemical modeling [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A distributed, mobile-immobile domain transport model based on local mass transfer with recirculation zones (216972)
Jiaqing Zhou1,2, Lichun Wang2, Yifeng Chen3 and M Bayani Cardenas4, (1)Wuhan University, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan, China, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
A multi-scale experimental and simulation approach for fractured subsurface systems (Invited) (207504)
Hari Selvi Viswanathan1, James W Carey2, Luke Frash2, Satish Karra3, Jeffrey Hyman4, Qinjun Kang5, Esteban Rougier2 and Gowri Srinivasan4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States
Modeling reactive transport processes in fractured rock using the time domain random walk approach within a dual-porosity framework (249620)
Delphine Roubinet1, Anna Russian1, Marco Dentz2 and Philippe Gouze3, (1)CNRS - Geosciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France, (2)IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Anomalous Transport in Natural Fracture Networks Induced by Tectonic Stress (237181)
Peter K Kang, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States; Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Water Resources Cycle Rsearch, Seoul, South Korea, Qinghua Lei, ETH-Zurich, London, United Kingdom, Seunghak Lee, KIST Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Water Cycle Research Center, Seoul, South Korea, Marco Dentz, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Improving estimates of subsurface gas transport in unsaturated fractured media using experimental Xe diffusion data and numerical methods (241360)
John P Ortiz1, Alexi Douglas Ortega2, Dylan R Harp3, Hakim Boukhalfa4 and Phil H Stauffer4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Security Earth Science Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)The Freshwater Trust, Portland, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
On the development and benchmarking of an approach to model gas transport in fractured media with immobile water storage (256569)
Dylan R Harp1, John P Ortiz2, Sachin Pandey3, Satish Karra4, Hari Selvi Viswanathan5, Philip H Stauffer5, Dale N Anderson6 and Christopher R Bradley7, (1)The Freshwater Trust, Portland, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Security Earth Science Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences (EES-16), Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)Nevada National Security Site, Las Vegas, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Nonequilibrium capillarity effects in multiphase flow through small volume fractured porous media (235094)
Mingming Tang, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China, Hongbin Zhan, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China and Shuangfang Lu, Northeast Petroleum University, Sanya Offshore oil & gas research institute, Qingdao, China

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