A Novel Model of Hydraulic Aperture for Rough Single Fracture: Insights From Fluid Inertial and Fracture Geometry Effects

Author:

Zhang Shuai1ORCID,Liu Xiaoli1ORCID,Wang Enzhi1,Qian Ruipeng1,Wang Mingyang1,Ma Qing1

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering Key Laboratory of Hydrosphere Sciences of the Ministry of Water Resources Department of Hydraulic Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing China

Abstract

AbstractPrevious 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 inertial hydraulic aperture (bih) that considers the fluid inertial effect and fracture geometry effect by massive direct numerical simulations of fluid flow in real and artificial 3‐D fractures. Simulation results indicate that with an increase in Reynolds number (Re), the evolution eddy volume ratio exhibits three distinct stages: stable stage (Re < 1), fluctuating stage (1 ≤ Re ≤ 10), and increasing to stable stage (Re > 10). These stages correspond to the transition of flow regimes from the viscous Darcy regime to the weak inertia regime, and further developing into the strong inertia regime. Among them, Re = 1 can be considered as the critical point for the onset of the non‐Darcy flow. Furthermore, As Re increases, the evolution of bih exhibits four stages influenced by fluid inertia effects and main flow width in the fracture: stability, slight increase, slight decrease, and rapid increase. Then, based on 892 sets of simulation results (Re ≥ 1), the expression of bih was obtained using Gene Expression Programming. Compared to the four existing empirical models of bh, the present bih exhibits the highest accuracy and the lowest errors (R2 = 0.994, MAE = 0.008, RMSE = 0.013). Finally, the proposed bih is further employed to modify the Forchheimer equation. This study enhances the understanding of hydraulic conductivity in 3‐D rough single fractures.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering

Publisher

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

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