Multifractal characteristics of natural fracture apertures

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Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.2641b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 24, p. 2641-2644

Physics

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Apertures, Crustal Fractures, Fluid Flow, Fractals, Fracture Mechanics, Ground Water, Hydrology, Boreholes, Computerized Simulation, Graphs (Charts), Statistical Analysis

Scientific paper

Using information acquired from microscanner logs in horizontal boreholes, fracture apertures are shown to be characterized by multifractal scaling. A representative f-alpha spectrum can be modeled using a multiplicative cascade based on a two-scale Cantor set. The resulting cascade can be used to simulate fracture aperture distributions at any scale. When compared to well data, the simulations show good agreement with aperture sizes and reproduce the clustering commonly recognized in fracture networks.

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