Incorporation of fracture directions into 3D geostatistical methods for a rock fracture system

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1403-1414

  Koike, Katsuaki ^a   Liu, Chunxue ^b   Sanga, Tomoji ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c Nikko Exploration and Development Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fracture density; Fracture orientation; GEOFRAC; Granite; Hydraulic conductivity; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; FRACTURE DATA; FRACTURE DENSITY; FRACTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; FRACTURE LOCATION; FRACTURE ORIENTATIONS; FRACTURE PLANE; FRACTURE SYSTEMS; GEOFRAC; GEOSCIENCES; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; HYDRAULIC TESTS; ORDINARY KRIGING; ROCK FRACTURES; SEQUENTIAL GAUSSIAN SIMULATION; SIMULATED FRACTURE; STUDY SITES;

GRANITE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

FRACTURE;

DIP; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GEOSTATISTICS; GRANITE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; STRIKE (GEOLOGY); THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSFORM;

EID: 84862253273     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1350-z     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Acuna J, Yortsos Y (1995) Application of fractal geometry to the study of networks of fractures and their pressure transient. Water Resour Res 31: 527-540.
2. Andersson J, Dverstrop B (1987) Conditional simulations of fluid flow in three-dimensional network of discrete fractures. Water Resour Res 23: 1876-1886.
3. Andersson J, Thunvik R (1986) Predicting mass transport in discrete fracture networks with the aid of geometrical filed data. Water Resour Res 22: 1941-1950.
4. Andersson J, Shapiro AM, Bear J (1984) A stochastic model of a fractured rock conditioned by measured information. Water Resour Res 20: 79-88.
5. Billaux D, Chilès JP, Hestir K, Long J (1989) Three-dimensional statistical modelling of a fractured rock mass-an example from the Fanay-Augères mine. Int J Rock Mech Miner Sci and Geomech Abstr 26: 281-299.
6. Cacas MC, Ledoux E, DeMarsily G, Tille B, Barbreau A, Durand E, Feuga B, Peaudecerf P (1990) Modelling fracture flow with a stochastic discrete fracture network: calibration and validation: 1. The flow model. Water Resour Res 26: 479-489.
7. Chilès JP (1988) Fractal and geostatistical methods for modeling of a fracture network. Math Geol 20: 631-654.
8. Clemo T, Smith L (1997) A hierarchical model for solute transport in fractured media. Water Resour Res 33: 1763-1783.
9. Dershowitz WS, Einstein HH (1988) Characterizing rock joint geometry with joint system models. Rock Mech and Rock Eng 21: 21-51.
10. Deutsch CV, Journel AG (1998) GSLIB: Geostatistical software library and user's guide. Oxford University Press, London.
11. Heffer KJ, Bevan TG (1990) Scaling relationships in natural fractures: data, theory, and application. In: Proceedings of the 2nd European Petroleum Conference, pp 367-376.
12. Hewett TA (1994) Fractal methods for fracture characterization. In: Yarus JM, Chambers RL (eds) Stochastic modeling and geostatistics: principles, methods, and case studies. AAPG Compute Applications in Geology 3, AAPG, pp 249-260.
13. Japan Underground Oil Storage Co. Ltd. (1991) Report on Enforcement Management Work of the Kikuma Station Construction-Geological Series (in Japanese).
14. Koike K, Ichikawa Y (2006) Spatial correlation structures of fracture systems for identifying a scaling law and modeling fracture distributions. Comput Geosci 32: 1079-1095.
15. Koike K, Nagano S, Kawaba K (1998) Construction and analysis of interpreted fracture planes through combination of satellite-image derived lineaments and digital elevation model data. Comput Geosci 24: 573-583.
16. Koike K, Komorida K, Ichikawa Y (2001) Fracture-distribution modeling in rock mass using borehole data and geostatistical simulation. In: Proceedings of International Association for Mathematical Geology Conference (Cancun 2001), CD-ROM.
17. Laslett GM (1982) Censoring and edge effects in areal and line transect sampling of rock joint traces. Math Geol 14: 125-140.
18. Long JCS, Billaux DM (1987) From field data to fracture network modeling: an example incorporating spatial structure. Water Resour Res 23: 1201-1216.
19. Long JCS, Gilmour P, Witherspoon PA (1985) A model for steady fluid flow in random three-dimensional networks of disc-shaped fractures. Water Resour Res 21: 1105-1115.
20. Mauldon M, Dunne WM, Rohrbaugh MB Jr (2001) Circular scanlines and circular windows: new tools for characterizing the geometry of fracture traces. J Struct Geol 23: 247-258.
21. Nureki T (1958) On the structure of granite complex in the northern part of the Takanawa Peninsula, Ehime prefecture. J Sci of the Hiroshima Univ (Ser. C, Geol and Mineral) 2: 109-127.
22. Oda M, Hatsuyama Y, Ohnishi Y (1987) Numerical experiments on permeability tensor and its application to jointed granite at Stripa mine, Sweden. J Geophys Res 92B: 8037-8048.
23. Odling NE (1997) Scaling and connectivity of joint systems in sandstones from western Norway. J Struct Geol 19: 1257-1271.
24. Priest SD, Hudson JA (1976) Discontinuity spacings in rock. Int J Rock Mech Min Sci and Geomech Abst 13: 135-148.
25. Riley MS (2004) An algorithm for generating rock fracture patterns: mathematical analysis. Math Geol 36: 683-702.
26. Rouleau A, Gale JE (1985) Statistical characterization of the fracture system in the Stripa granite, Sweden. Int J Rock Mech Min Sci and Geomech Abst 22: 353-367.
27. Rouleau A, Gale JE (1987) Stochastic discrete fracture simulation of groundwater flow into an underground excavation in granite. Int J Rock Mech Min Sci and Geomech Abst 24: 99-112.
28. Snow DT (1969) Anisotropic permeability of fractured media. Water Resour Res 5: 1273-1289.
29. Suro-Pérez V, Journel AG (1991) Indicator principal component kriging. Math Geol 23: 759-788.
30. Terzaghi RD (1965) Sources of error in joint surveys. Geotech 15: 287-304.
31. Tran NH, Chen Z, Rahman SS (2006) Integrated conditional global optimisation for discrete fracture network modeling. Comput Geosci 32: 17-27.