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On the Density Variability of Poissonian Discrete Fracture Networks, with application to power-law fracture size distributions

Philippe Davy
Romain Le Goc
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This paper presents analytical solutions to estimate at any scale the fracture density variability associated to stochastic Discrete Fracture Networks. These analytical solutions are based upon the assumption that each fracture in the network is an independent event. Analytical solutions are developed for any kind of fracture density indicators. Those analytical solutions are verified by numerical computing of the fracture density variability in three-dimensional stochas-tic Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) models following various orientation and size distributions, including the heavy-tailed power-law fracture size distribution. We show that this variability is dependent on the fracture size distribution and the measurement scale, but not on the orientation distribution. We also show that for networks following power-law size distribution, the scaling of the three-dimensional fracture density variability clearly depends on the power-law exponent .
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insu-02277999 , version 1 (04-09-2019)

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Etienne Lavoine, Philippe Davy, Caroline Darcel, Romain Le Goc. On the Density Variability of Poissonian Discrete Fracture Networks, with application to power-law fracture size distributions. Advances in Geosciences, 2019, 49, pp.77-83. ⟨10.5194/adgeo-49-77-2019⟩. ⟨insu-02277999⟩
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