Effective Elastic and Hydraulic Properties of Fractured Rock Masses with High Contrast of Permeability: Numerical Calculation by an Embedded Fracture Continuum Approach

<div>Horizontal flux going through the fractured medium and its convergence as function of the fracture cell size and inclination angle of fracture (a); comparison of the horizontal flux determined from the conformed mesh and nonuniform mesh models (b).</div>

Advances in Civil Engineering

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Figure 9: Effective Elastic and Hydraulic Properties of Fractured Rock Masses with High Contrast of Permeability: Numerical Calculation by an Embedded Fracture Continuum Approach 

Figure 9 | Effective Elastic and Hydraulic Properties of Fractured Rock Masses with High Contrast of Permeability: Numerical Calculation by an Embedded Fracture Continuum Approach 