Influence of injection mode on transport properties in kilometer-scale three-dimensional discrete fracture networks
Abstract
We investigate how the choice of injection mode impacts transport properties in kilometer-scale three-dimensional discrete fracture networks (DFN). The choice of injection mode, resident and flux-weighted, is designed to mimic different physical phenomena. It has been hypothesized that solute plumes injected under resident conditions evolve to behave similarly to solutes injected under flux-weighted conditions. Previously, computational limitations have prohibited the large-scale simulations required to investigate this hypothesis. We investigate this hypothesis by using a high-performance DFN suite, dfnWorks, to simulate flow in kilometer-scale three-dimensional DFNs based on fractured granite at the Forsmark site in Sweden, and adopt a Lagrangian approach to simulate transport therein. Results show that after traveling through a pre-equilibrium region, both injection methods exhibit linear scaling of the first moment of travel time and power law scaling of the breakthrough curve with similar exponents, slightly larger than 2. Lastly, the physical mechanisms behind this evolution appear to be the combination of in-network channeling of mass into larger fractures, which offer reduced resistance to flow, and in-fracture channeling, which results from the topology of the DFN.
- Authors:
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1255226
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1265639
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-14-28670
Journal ID: ISSN 0043-1397
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 20140002DR; AC52-06NA25396; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Water Resources Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 51; Journal Issue: 9; Conference: AGU Fall Meeting, San Fransisco, California, United States; 2014-12-15; Journal ID: ISSN 0043-1397
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; discrete fracture networks; subsurface flow and transport; fractured rock; injection mode; advective transport; 42 ENGINEERING; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Citation Formats
Hyman, Jeffrey De'Haven, Painter, S. L., Viswanathan, H., Makedonska, N., and Karra, S. Influence of injection mode on transport properties in kilometer-scale three-dimensional discrete fracture networks. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1002/2015WR017151.
Hyman, Jeffrey De'Haven, Painter, S. L., Viswanathan, H., Makedonska, N., & Karra, S. Influence of injection mode on transport properties in kilometer-scale three-dimensional discrete fracture networks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017151
Hyman, Jeffrey De'Haven, Painter, S. L., Viswanathan, H., Makedonska, N., and Karra, S. Sat .
"Influence of injection mode on transport properties in kilometer-scale three-dimensional discrete fracture networks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017151. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1255226.
@article{osti_1255226,
title = {Influence of injection mode on transport properties in kilometer-scale three-dimensional discrete fracture networks},
author = {Hyman, Jeffrey De'Haven and Painter, S. L. and Viswanathan, H. and Makedonska, N. and Karra, S.},
abstractNote = {We investigate how the choice of injection mode impacts transport properties in kilometer-scale three-dimensional discrete fracture networks (DFN). The choice of injection mode, resident and flux-weighted, is designed to mimic different physical phenomena. It has been hypothesized that solute plumes injected under resident conditions evolve to behave similarly to solutes injected under flux-weighted conditions. Previously, computational limitations have prohibited the large-scale simulations required to investigate this hypothesis. We investigate this hypothesis by using a high-performance DFN suite, dfnWorks, to simulate flow in kilometer-scale three-dimensional DFNs based on fractured granite at the Forsmark site in Sweden, and adopt a Lagrangian approach to simulate transport therein. Results show that after traveling through a pre-equilibrium region, both injection methods exhibit linear scaling of the first moment of travel time and power law scaling of the breakthrough curve with similar exponents, slightly larger than 2. Lastly, the physical mechanisms behind this evolution appear to be the combination of in-network channeling of mass into larger fractures, which offer reduced resistance to flow, and in-fracture channeling, which results from the topology of the DFN.},
doi = {10.1002/2015WR017151},
journal = {Water Resources Research},
number = 9,
volume = 51,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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