A new computer code for discrete fracture network modelling

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 292-301

  Xu, Chaoshui ^a   Dowd, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discrete fracture network; Marked point process; Stochastic rock fracture modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CODES; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; FRACTURE LOCATION; HEMISPHERICAL PROJECTION; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; MARKED POINT PROCESS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; POINT PROCESS; PROBABILITY PLOT; ROCK FRACTURES; SAMPLING TOOLS; SCANLINE; STATISTICAL TOOLS; THEORETICAL BASIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROCKS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FRACTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HISTOGRAM; NETWORK DESIGN; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROCK MECHANICS; SOFTWARE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 75749129786     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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