Estimating the hydraulic conductivity of two-dimensional fracture networks using effective medium theory and power-law averaging

doi:10.1201/b10550-55

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$Estimating the hydraulic conductivity of two-dimensional fracture networks using effective medium theory and power-law averaging$

ABSTRACT

Snow (1965) proposed an analytical method to calculate the anisotropic permeability of fractured media by using solutions for parallel fracture networks, assuming the network can be modelled as a superposition of long fractures.